Del Norte County Municipal Code § 19.12 Signing And Building Numbering

To facilitate locating a fire and to avoid delays in response, all newly constructed or approved roads, street, and buildings shall be designated by names or numbers, posted on signs clearly visible and legible from the roadway. This section shall not restrict the size of letters of numbers appearing on street signs for other purposes.

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The size of letters, numbers and symbols for street and road signs shall be a minimum of four-inches letter height, 1/2-inch stroke, reflectorized, white to contrast with the background green reflectorized color of the metal sign.

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Street and road signs shall be visible and legible from both directions of vehicle travel for a distance of at least one hundred (100) feet.

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Height of street and road signs shall be uniform county wide, and meet the visibility and legibility standards of this article.

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Newly constructed or approved public and private roads and streets must be identified by a name or number through a consistent countywide system that provides for sequenced or patterned numbering and/or nonduplicating naming within each county. All signs shall be mounted and oriented in a uniform manner. This section does not require any entity to name, rename or renumber existing roads or streets when more than one (1) developed parcel is affected by the request to name, rename or renumber unless access is not directly from the road the address corresponds to. This section shall also not require the naming or numbering of a roadway providing access only to a single commercial or industrial occupancy.

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Signs required by this article identifying intersecting roads, streets and private lanes shall be placed at the intersection of those roads, streets, and/or private lanes.

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A sign identifying traffic access or flow limitations, including but not limited to weight or vertical clearance limitations, dead-end road, one-way road or single lane conditions, shall be placed:

1. at the intersection preceding the traffic access limitation, and

2. no more than 100 feet before such traffic access limitation.

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Road, street and private lane signs required by Title 19 shall be installed prior to final acceptance by the local jurisdiction of road improvements.

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1. All residential and commercial buildings shall have approved address numbers conspicuously posted at all times. Address numbers shall be posted on the side of the building facing the frontage street.

2. In the event address numbers are not visible from the frontage street, the approved address numbers shall be placed at the beginning of the driveway. If more than one driveway services a single structure the approved numbers shall be placed at the beginning of each driveway. Where there are more than one residential or commercial buildings with separate addresses located on the same driveway, or drive - ways, the approved address numbers shall be placed upon both the structure and at the beginning of the driveway.

3. All buildings shall be issued an address by the local jurisdiction which conforms to that jurisdiction's overall address system. Accessory buildings will not be required to have a separate address; however, each dwelling unit within a building shall be separately identified.

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• 19.12.100 Size Of Letters, Numbers And Symbols For Addresses

Size of letters, numbers and symbols for addresses shall be a minimum 4 inch letter height, 1/2-inch stroke, reflectorized white to contrast with the background reflectorized green color of the metal sign.

Address identification shall be plainly legible and visible from the street or road fronting the property. Addresses shall be Arabic numbers or alphabetical letters. Where access is by means of a private road and the address identification cannot be viewed from the public way, a monument, pole or other sign or means shall be used to identify the address.

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1. All buildings shall have a permanently posted address, which shall be placed at each driveway entrance and visible from both directions of travel along the road. In all cases, the address shall be posted at the beginning of construction and shall be maintained thereafter, and the address shall be visible and legible from the road on which the address is located.

2. Address signs along one-way roads shall be visible from both the intended direction of travel and the opposite direction.

3. Where multiple addresses are required at a single driveway, they shall be mounted on a single post.

4. Where a roadway provides access solely to a single commercial or industrial business, the address sign shall be placed at the nearest road intersection providing access to that site.

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