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Shopping Center. An integrated grouping of commercial stores, under single ownership or control. Shore Impact Zone. Land located between the ordinary high water level of a public water and a line parallel to it at a setback of fifty (50) percent of the structure setback. Shoreland. Land located within the following distances from public waters: One thousand (1,000) feet from the ordinary high water level of a lake, pond, or flowage; and three hundred (300) feet from a river or stream, or the landward extent of a floodplain designated by ordinance on a river or stream, whichever is greater. The limits of shorelands may be reduced whenever the waters involved are bounded by topographic divides which extend landward from the waters for lesser distances and when approved by the Commissioner. Si n. The use of any words, numerals, figures, devices or trademarks by which anything is made known such as are used to show an individual, firm, profession or business and are visible to the general public. Sign - Address. A sign communicating street address only, whether script or in numerical form. Sian - Advertisine. A bitlboard, poster panel, painted bulletin board, or other communication device which is used to advertise products, goods, and/or services which are not exclusively related to the premise on which the sign is located. Sien Area. That area with the marginal lines of the surface which bears the advertisement or, in the case of messages, figures or symbols attached directly to the part of a building, that area which is included in the smallest rectangle or series of geometric figures which can be made to circumscribe the message, figure or symbol displayed thereon. Sian -Area Identification. Afreestanding sign which identifies the name of a single or two-family residential subdivision consisting of twenty (20) or more lots; a residential planned unit development; multiple residential complex consisting of three (3) or more structures; an office or business structure containing three (3) or more independent operations; a single business consisting of three (3) or more separate structures existing on individual platted lots or as a planned unit development; or any integrated combination of the above. Said sign shall be limited only to the identification of an area or complex and shall not, unless approved by the City Council, contain the name of individual owners or tenants. An area identification sign shall contain no advertising. Sign - Bench. A sign which is affixed to a bench such as at a bus stop. Sien -Business. Any sign which identifies a business or group of businesses, either retail or wholesale, or any sign which identifies a profession or is used in the identification or promotion of any principal commodity or service, including entertaimnent, offered or sold upon the premise where such sign is located. Little Canada Zoning Ordinance Definitions 902-19