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<br />BZD Committee - Amended Version
<br />As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise indicates:
<br />(a) "Sign" shall mean any writing, pictorial representation, illustration, emblem,
<br />symbol, design, or other figure of similar character that is a structure or a part
<br />thereof, or is attached to or in any manner represented on a building, vehicle, or
<br />other structure, and is visible from any public right-of-way or any other lot or
<br />parcel, and is used for purposes of advertisement, announcement, declaration,
<br />demonstration, identification or expression.
<br />(b) "Illuminated Sign" shall mean any sign which has characters, letters, figures,
<br />designs, ar outlines illuminated externally or internally by any light source other
<br />than non-reflected natural dayligllt.
<br />(c) "Ground Sign" shall mean any sign, excluding a billboard, supported by uprights,
<br />braces, or base or stem of any material, placed upon the ground and not attached
<br />to any building.
<br />(d) "Wall Sign" shall mean any sign applied or attached to, or painted onto, any
<br />exterior wall surface of any building or structLire.
<br />(e) "Canopy Sign" shall mean any sign attached to the soffit or fascia of a canopy,
<br />marquee, awning, covered entrance, covered walkway, arbor, pergola or other
<br />similar structure.
<br />"Billboard" shall mean any sign advertising, identifying or directing attention to
<br />any product, service, entertainuient or commercial activity not offered upon the lot
<br />on which the sign is located.
<br />(g) "Pole Sign" shall mean any sign, other tllan 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 pedestriail ol- vehictilar clearance beneath any of the sign's
<br />message ai-ea, or
<br />(2) To allow the sign's nlcssage area to overliang 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 brcadtll.
<br />(h) "Flag" shall mean any sign of cloth or siulilar material, anchored along one side,
<br />displayed from a single pole, eithcr freestanding or attached to a building.
<br />(i) "Window Sign" shall meail any sign in view of the general public appearing on a
<br />window surface or within up to twcnty-lour (24) inches of the window surface.
<br />(j) "Vehicular Sign" shall ineail any sigil attached or applied to a vehicle of any type
<br />and used primarily to identi fy, 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 a sign designed and intended far use for only a
<br />limited period of time.
<br />(1) "Nonconforming Sign" sllall me?m any sigii existing on or after the effective date
<br />ofNorth Olmsted Ordinance 2000-12 which does not conform to said Ordinanea
<br />in its entirety.
<br />(m) "Facing" or "Surface" or "Sw-f'acc Area" or "Sign Face Area" shall mean the
<br />surface of the sign tipon, against, oi- through which the message is displayed or
<br />illustrated on the sign. The sign facc ai-ea shall be the area of the smallest of these
<br />regularpolygons-circle, ellij)se, triaugle, rectangle, trapezoid, pentagon ar
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