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SECTION 5: Applicable. Standards.. <br />Measurement Standards. <br />a) Sign Area•and•Dimensions. <br />1) For a wall sign which is framed, outlined, painted or otherwise <br />prepared and intended to provide a background for a sign display, <br />the area and dimensions shall include the entire portion within such <br />background or frame. <br />2) For a wall `sign comprised of individual letters, figures or elements <br />on a wall. or similar surface of the building or structure.:the area <br />and dimensions of the sign shall' encompass a regular geometric <br />shape or a. combination of regular geometric. shapes which form, or <br />approxinnate, the perimeter of .all elements. in the display,. the <br />•franie, .and any applied background that is not part of the <br />architecture of the building. When separate. elements are organized <br />to form .a•single sign, but:are separated by open space, the sign area <br />and dimensions shall .be calculated by determining, the .geometric <br />form, or combination of forms, which comprises all of the display <br />areas, including the space between different areas: Minor <br />appendages to a particular regular shape, as• determined by the <br />Zoning Administrator, shall not be included in the total •area of a <br />sign. <br />Figures (for illustration): To be inserted later <br />3) For a freestanding sign, the sign area shalt include the frame, if <br />any, but shall not include a pole or other structural support unless <br />such pole or structural support is internally illuminated or <br />otherwise so designed to constitute a display device, or part of a <br />display device. Architectural features that are either part of the <br />building or part :of a freestanding structure,and not an integral part <br />of the sign, and which may consist of landscaping, building or <br />structural forms complimenting the landscaping in general. <br />4) When two identical sign faces are placed back to back so that both <br />faces cannot.. be viewed from any point at the same time, andare <br />part of the same sign structure, the sign area shall be computed as. <br />the measurement of one of the two faces_ When the sign has more <br />than two display surfaces,the areaofthe sign shall be the area of <br />largest display surfaces that are visible from any single direction. <br />b) Sigh Height. <br />Ordinance 109 draft 9/16/09 6 <br />