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137 Signs 1163.02 <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 <br />side, 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 <br />a window surface or within up to twenty-four (24) inches of the window <br />surface. <br />(j) "Vehicular Sign" shall mean any sign attached or applied to a vehicle of any <br />type and used primarily to identify, advertise or promote, excluding any signs <br />on 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 <br />of cloth, canvas, wallboard, board, plastic or other such material, designed to be <br />displayed for a limited period of time. <br />(1) "Nonconforming Sign" shall mean any sign existing on or after the effective <br />date of North Olmsted Ordinance 2000-12 which does not conform to said <br />Ordinance 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 <br />these regular polygons-circle, ellipse, triangle, rectangle, trapezoid, pentagon <br />or hexagon - that completely contains the sign message, background of the <br />message and contiguous trims, or frames. Any sign supports or structure other <br />than exposed steel framing, which is clad in finished wood, stone, masonry, <br />stucco, or metals, and which does not bear any sign copy, art or message shall <br />not be included in the sign face area. <br />(n) "Frontage" or "Lot Frontage" shall mean the lot or property dimension along <br />the 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 "Umt 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 <br />separated from other such spaces by a party wall or walls. <br />2002 Replacement