YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE Page 118 CHAPTER 6 FOCUSED DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS The following Section shall be known and cited as the Yavapai County Sign Code and shall be incorporated by reference into the Planning and Zoning Ordinance of the County of Yavapai, replacing and superseding all former references to signs in that Ordinance. The uses, locations, types, heights, sizes and illumination of signs (for illumination see also Section 603 Light Pollution Control) are regulated in order to protect the attractiveness of the County, to enhance tourism, to promote commerce, to preserve property values, to insulate residential areas from the undue impact of signs, to foster the effectiveness of business signage, to promote traffic and pedestrian safety, and to protect the general welfare. DEFINITIONS: Awning: A shelter or cover projecting from and supported by an exterior wall of a building. Canopy: Same as awning. Commercial and/or Industrial Center: A group of two (2) or more businesses associated by a common agreement or common ownership with common parking facilities. Construction (Beginning): The placement or attachment of sign-related materials (e.g. posts, poles, brackets, standards, bolts, screws, lumber, concrete, block, footings, paint) on the ground or on an existing building or other structure. Frontage: The length of the property line of any one (1) premise along a public right-of-way on which it borders. Grade: Average elevation of the ground within a radius of twenty feet (20’) from the center point of the sign. Interstate Freeway Interchange: Where ingress or egress is obtained to a federal interstate highway; specifically delineated as lying within three-hundred feet (300’) of the federal right-of-way and between the two (2) points of widening of the interstate highway right-of-way approaching the interchange. (See Example) Lighting, Internal-Reverse Print: An internally lighted sign in which the visible lighted area constitutes less than fifty percent (50%) of the total sign area, with lighted or visible letters against a dark background. Mansard: A roof with two (2) angles of slope, the lower portion of which is steeper and is architecturally comparable to a building wall. Also a facade with a slope approaching the vertical which imitates a roof. (See accompanying diagram) SECTION 601 SIGN CODE