G40-85 Ordinance No. G40-85
AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING CHAPTER 19.45 OF THE ELGIN MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED
COMMUNITY GRAPHICS
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS:
Section I. That Section 19.45.0608 of Chapter 19.45 of the Elgin Municipal Code,
1976, as amended, entitled Community Graphics be and is hereby amended to read as
follows:
B. No wall sign shall be erected or maintained unless it meets all of
the following requirements:
I. Number. No more than one wall sign shall be maintained on
each face of a building or store front, except that two wall signs may be
maintained on any one face of a building or store front. No more than five
wall signs shall be maintained on any single building, except individual store
fronts which are each permitted one wall sign or two wall signs as
provided. No wall sign shall be maintained on any face of a building
located on a parcel that is adjacent to a residence district and the sign is
directly visible from the adjacent residence district, except that face of a
building which is a store front or that face of a building which has a street
front exposure.
2. Area. The total sign surface area of any wall sign or signs
shall not exceed three times the lineal footage of the building face or store
front on which the wall sign or signs shall be maintained nor the following
maximum area requirements, whichever is less:
a. One hundred twenty square feet, where the building is
set back less than two hundred feet;
b. Two hundred forty square feet, where the building is set
back two hundred feet or more, but less than four hundred feet;
c. Four hundred eighty square feet, where the building is
set back four hundred feet or more.
Section 2. That Section 19.45.0706 of Chapter 19.45 of the Elgin Municipal Code,
1976, as amended, entitled Community Graphics be and is hereby amended to read as
follows:
G. Expressway Sign. Any retail business establishment located
within seven hundred feet of a limited access expressway such as the
Illinois Northwest Tollway and the Illinois Route 20 Bypass, may have a
freestanding expressway sign povided that there is an accessible exit within
two thousand five hundred feet of the sign. The surface area of a free-
standing expressway sign shall not exceed three hundred square feet, and
the height of the sign shall not exceed forty feet. The freestanding
expressway sign shall be counted as one of the total number of permissible
freestanding signs, shall be located on the parcel as close to the limited
access expressway as is physically possible, and shall be directed to the
limited access expressway.
Section 3. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provi-
sions of this ordinance be and are hereby repealed.
Section 4. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage and publication in the manner provided by law.
s/ Richard L. Verbic
Richard L. Verbic, Mayor
Presented: June 10, 1985
Passed: June 10, 1985
Vote: Yeas 6 Nays 1
Recorded:
Published:
Attest:
s/ Marie Yearman
Marie Yearman, City Clerk
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