The following signs are permitted in any district and may be located in required yards, other sign control provisions notwithstanding; and need not be included in any computation of permitted aggregate sign area.

    A.    Official public signs or notices or any temporary notice posted by a public officer in the performance of his duty;

    B.    House numbers, mail box identification, street names, “no trespass” signs, and other warning signs;

    C.    Courtesy signs identifying a benefactor, a location of historic interest, or a statue or monument;

    D.    Any sign which has been determined by the historical landmarks committee for this county to have significant historical merit;

    E.    One name plate, two square feet maximum area and shall not be illuminated;

    F.    Pedestrian signs:

    1.    Must be suspended from a canopy over a sidewalk which is directly in front of the door of the business thereby identified,

    2.    Must be perpendicular to the business building wall,

    3.    Must not be more than ten square feet in area if double-faced, five square feet in area if single-faced,

    4.    Must provide a minimum of eight-foot clearance to the sidewalk below,

    5.    Are limited to one per business per building elevation;

    G.    Signs serving to direct the flow of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, with eight square feet per sign, except pavement markings which are not so restricted as to maximum area;

    H.    Temporary nonstructure signs promoting public health, safety, or welfare programs and activities: eight square feet aggregate area per lot;

    I.    Temporary political sign(s) eighteen (18) square feet aggregate area per lot;

    J.    Sale or lease sign, with two signs permitted per lot, six square feet maximum area per sign and shall not be illuminated; provided, however, that sale or lease signs in any C or M district shall not exceed twenty-four (24) square feet. One such sign may be placed for each one hundred (100) feet of street frontage;

    K.    Subdivision sale, rent or lease sign, to advertise the original sale, rent or lease of buildings or lots in connection with a subdivision development: sixty-four (64) square feet plus one additional sign of like dimension for each thirty-five (35) lots or buildings for sale, rent or lease, twenty (20) feet maximum height, and shall not be illuminated;

    L.    Apartment rental sign, for apartment complexes of no less than five dwelling units: one sign, thirty-two (32) square feet maximum area, ten feet maximum height, shall not be illuminated; and shall be removed when initial occupancy occurs within eighty (80) percent or more of the dwelling units;

    M.    A bulletin board used to display announcements relative to meetings held on the premises of a church, school, auditorium, or other place of public assembly, twenty-four (24) square feet in area, unless otherwise approved under a conditional use permit, variance, or site development review, attached to the wall or regulated as to height by those limitations on fences and hedges contained in Section 17.52.430;

    N.    A directory or other exclusively informational listing of tenants’  names attached to the wall at the entrance of a building, or if freestanding, regulated as to height by those limitations on fences and hedges contained in Section 17.52.430, and other provisions of this section notwithstanding, may not be located within a required front or street side yard, twelve (12) square feet maximum aggregate area;

    O.    Identification sign, thirty-two (32) square feet maximum area unless otherwise approved under a conditional use permit, variance, or site development review or if freestanding, regulated as to height by those limitations on fences, walls, and hedges contained in Section 17.52.430;

    P.    Not more than two service station price signs thirty-two (32) square feet maximum aggregate area, six feet maximum height and may be attached to and made part of service station sign display structure pursuant to Section 17.38.140;

    Q.    Signs located inside a building or structure, provided any such sign is neither attached to windows with its sign copy visible from the outside nor otherwise so located inside so as to be conspicuously visible and readable without intentional and deliberate effort from outside the building or structure, provided, however, that any sign or signs which in the aggregate have an area not exceeding twenty-five (25) percent of the window area from which they are viewed are also permitted and need not be included in any computation of permitted aggregate sign area. (Prior gen. code § 8-60.65)