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SECTION III. DISTRICT REGULATIONS • A. "R" Rural District: Purpose. This district is designed and intended to aid in guiding development toward fulfillment of the Comprehensive Plan and to serve the following functions. • • 1. To preserve productive land for agricultural use. 2. To maintain "open space" within and near to urban areas. 3. To help guide development of urban and rural areas along an orderly design to preserve continuity and efficiency of service. 4, To provide a method by which the urban farm can be guided so as to control urban sprawl and still conserve land in an economic status until such time as the need is present for an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. 5. To reduce the possibilities of rural -urban conflicts in establishing types and levels of service, methods of financing the services and needs. To maintain an accept- able per capita cost for such services as sanitary sewer, water, police, fire, road maintenance, school transporta- tion, and others is necessity. Rural Districts: In the Rural District all signs must comply with the following: 1. Residential Identifications: Not more than two (2) square feet of nameplate. 2. Institutional Identifications: Churches, schools, parks, etc. allowed up to twenty-four (24) square feet; not higher than eight (8) feet. 3. Advertising Signs: Allowed by Conditional Use Permit; forty (40) feel- maximum height above grade; must comply with General Regulations. Section IV. a. Must not be within seven hundred fifty (750) radius feet of an existing residential structure or other advertising structure in a non -freeway area. b. Must not be closer than seven hundred fifty (750) radius feet of another advertising structure. Shall not be closer than twelve hundred (1200) feet to another such advertising structure on the same side of an interstate freeway. For the purpose of this Ordinance, a back-to-back or V -type sign shall be considered as one structure. - 4-