Sign Ordinance Adopted 06-04-2012 - City of Deltona, Florida

Golf course: relatively large premises designed and constructed to accommodate the sport of golf. Theterm is not intended to include independent driving ranges or miniature golf courses.Granny Flat (also known as In-law apartments): a separate or attached dwelling unit including a foodpreparation area, built on a lot already containing a home.Gross floor area: the total floor area designed for occupancy and exclusive use, including basements,mezzanines, and upper floors, expressed in square feet and measured from outside wall face to outsidewall face.Gross leasable area: the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, includingbasements, mezzanines, and upper floors, and typically excluding public concourse and restrooms.Ground or Freestanding sign: A sign which is in contact with or in close proximity, to the ground for aminimum of 80 percent of its greatest horizontal dimension. A sign supported by a sign structure securedin the ground, typically on a foundation, and wholly independent of any building, fence, vehicle or objectother than the sign structure for support.Groundwater: water beneath the surface of the ground whether or not flowing through known anddefinite channels.Groundwater recharge: the natural process of infiltration and percolation of rainwater from land areas orstreams through permeable soils into water-holding strata or soils that provide underground storage.Guyed tower: communication tower that is supported in whole or in part by guy wires and groundanchors.Handheld sign: Handheld advertising activities shall be defined as a person twirling, holding, wearing, orotherwise displaying, within sight of any public right of way, a sign or signs advertising or promoting anycommercial goods, service, business, or commercial activity.Hardship: As related to variances from this Article means the exceptional hardship associated with theland that would result from a failure to grant the requested variance and must be exceptional, unusual, andpeculiar to the property involved. Mere economic or financial hardship alone is not exceptional.Inconvenience, aesthetic considerations, physical handicaps, personal preferences, or the disapproval ofone’s neighbors likewise cannot, as a rule, qualify as an exceptional hardship, even if the alternative ismore expensive, or requires the property owner to build elsewhere or put the parcel to a different use thanoriginally intended.Hazardous transporter: person or entity engaged in the transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail,highway, or water.Hazardous waste facility: any facility used for the treatment or disposition of hazardous substances byreason of its toxic, caustic, corrosive, abrasive, or otherwise injurious properties, may be detrimental ordeleterious to the health of any person handling or otherwise coming into contact with such material orsubstance.Height: the elevation of structures other than walls and buildings shall be the vertical distance from ahorizontal plane established through the average finished grade at the base of the structure to the highestpoint of any structure other than a wall. The height of a wall is the vertical distance from a horizontalplane established through the average finished grade to the mean level of the top of the wall, includingany dormers on the wall, when the wall is not supporting a roof. Also see the term "building height".High-turnover restaurant: has the meaning assigned in the ITE Manual, and includes any cafeteria.Highest adjacent grade: maximum natural elevation of the ground surface, prior to construction, next tothe proposed walls of a structure.Ordinance No. 04-2012 Adopted June 4, 2012 Page 28 LDC Section 70-30