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<br />Ordinance No. 2004-174
<br />( fl "Billboard" shall mean any sign advertising, identifying or directing attention to
<br />any product, service, entertainment or commercial activity not offered upon t:he lot
<br />on which the sign is located.
<br />(g) "Pole Sign" shall mean any sign, other than a flag as herein defined, that is
<br />supported by a pole, poles, columns or other base or structure, and designed
<br />either:
<br />(1) To allow pedestrian or vehicular clearance beneath any of the sign's
<br />message area, or
<br />(2) To allow the sign's message area to overhang the pole, poles, columns or
<br />other base or structure in total by more than twenty percent (20%) of the
<br />sign message area's breadth.
<br />(h) "Flag" shall mean any sign of cloth or similar material, anchored along one side,
<br />displayed from a single pole, either freestanding or attached to a building.
<br />(i) "Window Sign" shall mean any sign in view of the general public appearing on a
<br />window surface or within up to twenty-four (24) inches of the window surface.
<br />(j) "Vehicular Sign" shall mean any sign attached or applied to a vehicle of any type
<br />and used primarily to identify, advertise or promote, excluding any signs on
<br />vehicles normally and regularly used and operated in the course of business.
<br />(k) "Temporary Sign" shall mean any sign, banner, flag, pennant, or other display of
<br />cloth, canvas, wallboard, board, plastic or other such material, designed to bf;
<br />displayed for a limited period of time.
<br />(1) "Nonconforming Sign" shall mean any sign existing on or after the effective date
<br />of North Olmsted Ordinance 2000-12 which does not conform to said Ordinance
<br />in its entirety.
<br />(m) "Facing" or "Surface" or "Surface Area" or "Sign Face Area" shall mean the
<br />surface of the sign upon, against, or through which the message is displayed or
<br />illustrated on the sign. The sign face area shall be the area of the smallest of these
<br />regular polygons-circle, ellipse, triangle, rectangle, trapezoid, pentagon or
<br />hexagon - that completely contains the sign message, background of the message
<br />and contiguous trims, or frames. Any sign supports or structure other than
<br />exposed steel framing, which is clad in finished wood, stone, masonry, stucco, or
<br />metals, and which does not bear any sign copy, art or message shall not be
<br />included in the sign face area.
<br />(n) "Frontage" or "Lot Frontage" shall mean the lot or property dimension along the
<br />principal street.
<br />(o) "Building Frontage" shall mean the linear dimension of the width of the widest
<br />portion of the building face including all appurtenant overhangs or other
<br />structures, either:
<br />(1) Closest to parallel to the principal street or
<br />(2) Containing the primary building entrance, of any building on any lot.
<br />(p) "Building Unit" or "Unit of a Building" shall mean, in any building subdivided
<br />into separate units or spaces, any interior space occupying any portion of the
<br />ground floor of any building, and having its own exterior entrance, and separated
<br />from other such spaces by a party wall or walls.
<br />(q) "Unit Frontage" or "Building Unit Frontage" shall mean the linear dimension of
<br />the width of the widest portion of the building unit face including all appurtenant
<br />overhangs or other structures, either:
<br />(1) Closest to parallel to the principal street.or
<br />(2) Containing the primary building unit entrance, of any building on any lot.
<br />Where a building unit is bounded by a party wall or walls, the measurement of
<br />width shall be to the centerline(s) of such wall or walls.
<br />(r) "Alter" shall mean to change in any way, including but not limited to
<br />reconstruction, redesign, reillumination that changes the lighting design, sign face
<br />replacement that changes the sign face design, sign face change, and painting in a
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