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(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 either (1)
<br />to allow pedestrian or vehicular clearance beneath any of the sign's message area, or (2)
<br />to allow the sign's message area to overhang the pole, poles, columns or other base or
<br />structure in total by more than twenty percent (20%) of the 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 af the general public appearing on
<br />a 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
<br />type 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
<br />of cloth, canvas, wallboard, board, plastic or other such material, designed to be
<br />displayed for a limited period of time.
<br />(1) "Non-Conforming 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 Ordinance in
<br />its entirety.
<br />(m) "Facing" or "Surface" or "Surface Area" or "Sign Face Area" sha11 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 hexagon
<br />- that completely contains the sign message, background of the message and
<br />contiguous trims, or frames. Any sign supports or structure other than exposed steel
<br />framing, which are clad in finished wood, stone, masonry, stucco, or metals, and which
<br />do not bear any sign copy, art or message shall 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 structures,
<br />either (1) closest to parallel to the principal street or (2) containing the primary building
<br />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 ground
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