San Anselmo Municipal Code Art. 7 Permanent Signs on Nonresidential Uses

Legal nonresidential uses and establishments may erect, maintain and display permanent and principal signs as described in this chapter. Unless otherwise provided, all signs described in this chapter are subject to a sign permit. Rules for temporary signs are stated in Article 8 of this chapter. However, in the case of a newly opened, newly re-opened or "coming soon" establishment, temporary versions of the signs authorized by this article may be displayed without permit for a period not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

Individual offices or suites within buildings housing multiple professional offices, may display signs, subject to: Maximum area of display face: one (1) square foot; number of display faces: one (1); mounting types: wall, window or door; message type: noncommercial or on-site commercial, or any combination thereof. Other than listing changes in tenant names, changeable copy is not allowed.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

The master suite or office of building housing individual professional offices or suites may erect, maintain and display signs subject to: Maximum area of display face: four (4) square feet plus one (1) square feet for each individual office or suite. Message types: noncommercial or on-site commercial, or any combination thereof. Physical types: freestanding or mounted on a wall, door or fence. Other than listing changes in tenant names, changeable copy is not allowed.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

Cemeteries, country clubs, stables and kennels and animal shelters, golf courses, riding academies, tennis courts and other uses oriented to activities which occur primarily outdoors may erect, maintain and display one (1) sign, subject to: Maximum area of display face: twelve (12) square feet; maximum number of display faces: one (1); structural type: freestanding, wall, door, fence.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

Establishments of an institutional nature, such as educational, religious, civic, noncommercial, hospitals, sanitariums, rest homes, etc., may erect, maintain and display one (1) sign, subject to: Maximum size of display face: twenty (20) square feet; maximum number of display faces: one (1); physical types: wall or freestanding. Acceptable message types: noncommercial or on-site commercial, or any combination thereof.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

Establishments which sell motor fuels to the public may display up to three (3) signs, subject to: Total display area of all signs: 100 square feet; physical types: mounted on buildings or walls; not more than one (1) sign may be freestanding, and the display face area on a freestanding sign may not exceed forty (40) square feet. Acceptable message types: noncommercial or on-site commercial, or any combination thereof. Logos and price/quantity indicators on fuel pumps do not count towards the total display face area. Signs at motor fuel dispensers shall comply with relevant State law.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

All ground-floor nonresidential establishments for which specific rules are not provided by other sections of this article may display signs, subject to:

(a) Ground floor uses. Not more than two (2) signs per use, to be located on the primary building face, the total area of such signs not to exceed one (1) square foot for each lineal foot of the primary building face devoted to that use, up to a maximum total sign area of 100 square feet, except that:

(1) If a single use extends from one (1) street, through a building, to another street opposite and generally parallel to the first, or if a use is conducted on a corner, each of the building faces fronting a street shall be considered a primary building face for the purposes of determining the area and location of the signs permitted by such use, but the total area of permitted signs shall nevertheless not exceed 100 square feet per use;

(2) A use shall be permitted two (2) signs, located on the primary building face, and having a total area not exceeding one and one-half (1½) square feet for each lineal foot of primary building face devoted to that use, up to a maximum of 150 square feet per use, if that use fronts on a street (or on two (2) or more adjacent parallel streets) having a total of four (4) or more lanes of traffic; and

(3) Where the primary building face does not front on a public street, two (2) signs per use may be erected and maintained on the building face, if there is any, which does front on a public street, but the total square footage of each use's signs shall be no greater than would be permitted if the frontage devoted to that use were the primary building face.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

All establishments for which specific rules are not provided by other sections of this article may display signs, subject to:

(a) Second floor and third floor uses different from ground floor uses. One (1) sign per use, except that the total number of signs on the second or third floor of any building, including any professional sign permitted by the provisions of Sections 10-9.702 and 10-9.703 of this article, shall not exceed one (1) sign for each ten (10) lineal feet of primary building face of the building. Each such sign shall be located on the primary building face, and no such sign shall have an area greater than one (1) square foot. The area of signs permitted for second and third floor uses shall be in addition to the area of signs permitted for first floor uses in the building.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)

Shopping centers may erect and display signs listing information about tenants within the center, subject to: maximum area: twenty (20) square feet; maximum height: eleven (11′) feet; location: may be freestanding.

(Ord. 1053, eff. January 12, 2007)