Unified Land Development Code - Town of Gilbert

SIGNS
feet in sign area or fourteen (14) feet in height above finished grade. Otherwise, no wall signs
shall face abutting residentially-zoned property.
4.Wall signs shall be complementary to the architecture of the building and shall be placed on an area
that is free of architectural details on the facade. The sign shall fit proportionally with the overall
building mass and design, as well as the architectural features of the building elevation adjacent to the
individual tenants' or user's suite. Notwithstanding the permitted sign area) the length of the sign
shall not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the elevation of the tenant! user's suite 011 which the sign is
placed, nor shall the vertical dimension of the sign exceed eighty percent (80%) of the vertical
dimension of the sign band or wall space on which the sign is placed. No sign shall be located closer
to the top of a parapet-wall than one-half the vertical dimension of the largest letter or character of
the sign, or otherwise as approved by the Design Review Board upon a finding that such sign
placement does not visually crowd the top or side of the wall, or as approved by staff upon a
finding that the area of the sign copy encroaching into this area does not exceed ten percent (10%)
of the area of the sign.
5. Wall-mounted cabinet signs are prohibited, except as provided in Section 3.26 (K).
B. Freestanding Signs: One (1) on-premise freestanding monument sign is allowed for up to
the first three hundred (300) feet of street frontage) not to exceed forty (40) square feet
in area or eight (8) feet in sign height. One additional sign is permitted for each three hundred
(300) feet of additional street frontage. A minimum spacing of one hundred (100) feet shall be
maintained between monument signs on the same street frontage of the premises. All
freestanding signs shall be set back at least three (3) feet from any right-of-way line and shall
not interfere with required vehicular sight distances.
The means of integrating freestanding signs with the architecture of the building shall be
achieved through replication of architectural features, colors, building materials, texture, and
other elements found in the building design, as determined by the Design Review Board.
Integration shall also include the use of sign graphics that are consistent in terms of lettering
style, color, and method of attachment as used for wall-mounted signing found on the building.
In no case shall any such sign be secured with wires or strips of wood, which are visible, and not
as an integral part of the sign. Nonstructural trim may be of wood, metal, approved plastic or
any combination thereof.
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Directory Signs: One (1) sign for each five (5) uses within a multi-tenant planned
industrial development not to exceed forty (40) square feet in area or eight (8) feet in height.
All directory signs shall be set back at least seventy-five (75) feet from any perimeter property
line, except where such property line abuts other commercial or industrial development and there is
cross- access between the commercial or industrial properties. Such signs shall be installed on-site in
landscaped or pedestrian areas only, and used to guide pedestrians or vehicles to individual
businesses within the site. Their location(s) shall be approved by the Design Review Board or
Planning Staff. Such signs shall be used only for the purposes of direction and identification.
D. Interior Directional Signs: Such signs shall not exceed three (3) square feet in area
nor three (3) feet in height,. The sign area for such signs shall not be included when
calculating the SUII1 total of sign area for a use. Such sign shall be limited to traffic
directional arrow and copy to read "Enter" or "Exit" only, except that graphics maybe
01. I, Pg. 171
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