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5. Permission required. Applicants for off-premises signs shall acquire permission <br />from the property owner upon whose land the sign is to be erected. <br />h) Regulations Sign installation standards pertaining to specific sign type. Except as expressly provided <br />elsewhere, signs shall meet the following regulations according to sign type: <br />1. Wall signs. <br />a) Number. No building occupant shall display more than one wall sign per street frontage <br />except as provided below: <br />1. One additional wall sign may be displayed on a building with no front setback, <br />provided that such sign is a flat sign that is either painted upon the building or does <br />not extend outward more than six inches. <br />2. Up to three ancillary wall signs may be displayed on buildings measuring at least <br />100 feet in length along the front lot line. Any ancillary sign displayed under this <br />paragraph shall not exceed 50 percent of the net area or 50 percent of the height of <br />the largest permitted wall sigh displayed on that facade, nor shall the aggregate area <br />of the ancillary signs exceed 50 percent of the net area of such wall sign. <br />b) Surface area. The total permitted sign surface area of all wall signs on a facade shall not <br />exceed one square foot of signage for each lineal foot of building frontage that is <br />coterminous with the occupancy to which the sign refers, unless a different amount <br />allocated to the building occupant is identified in an approved comprehensive sign plan <br />pursuant to subsection (i) of this section. In addition, no individual wall sign shall exceed <br />100 square feet in area. <br />a) Location. Wall signs shall be mounted parallel to building walls and only on a portion of an <br />exterior wall that is coterminous with the occupancy to which the sign refers, unless a different <br />location is identified in an approved comprehensive sign plan pursuant to subsection (i) of this <br />section. No wall sign shall extend above or beyond the wall to which it is attached. <br />b) Installation requirements. No wall sign shall cover or interrupt significant architectural <br />elements such as columns, column caps, friezes, door or window heads, embellishments, <br />adornments, fenestration, or ornamental detailing on any building. All mounting brackets and <br />other hardware used to affix a sign to a wall as well as all electrical service hardware and <br />equipment shall be concealed by architectural elements of the building or the sign itself. <br />2. Ground signs. <br />a) Number. There shall be no more than one ground sign for each street on which the lot has <br />frontage, except one additional ground sign per lot frontage may be allowed for any lot <br />frontage over 1,000 linear feet. On lots occupied by two or more occupants, or where a <br />second ground sign is permitted, three or more occupants, a directory sign shall be used in <br />lieu of multiple ground signs. No single business or building occupant shall be allowed <br />signage on both an individual ground sign and a ground directory sign on the same street <br />frontage. On premises having no principal building, there shall be no more than one ground <br />sign for the premises. <br />b) Surface area. No ground sign shall exceed the size listed in Table 5-3. <br />a) Type of sign. Any permanent ground sign shall be erected as a monument sign. Pole signs <br />are prohibited unless the pole portion of the sign is enclosed in a shroud that causes the sign to