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BK -00028 PG: 0362 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LEE COUNTY UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners for Lee County, North Carolina that the Unified Development Ordinance be, and it hereby is, amended as follows: Section 1. That Article 11 Sign Regulations, Section 11.8.2, be deleted in its entirety and be rewritten to add a new Section 11.8.2.6 ADDITIONAL WALL SIGN PERMITTED IN NC, CBD, TND, and PUD ZONING DISTRICTS as follows: 11.8.2 WALL SIGNS. The maximum permitted sign area, location, characteristics, and number of Wall Signs shall be determined in accordance with Tables 11-1 through 11-4 and as outlined in this section. The following additional regulations shall apply to on premise wall mounted signs: 11.8.2.1 SIGNS ON BUILDING WALLS WHICH DO NOT FACE PUBLIC STREETS. The permitted wall sign may be placed on a wall that does not face a public street. The maximum allowable size shall be calculated as if the wall faces a public street. The maximum allowable size for a sign on one wall is not transferable to a wall with less frontage. 11.8.2.2 ADDITIONAL WALL SIGN PERMITTED ON CORNER OR DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOTS. Lots with more than one street frontage shall be allowed to erect one additional wall sign on the secondary street frontage. The secondary wall sign may not be placed on the same building wall as the primary sign. 11.8.2.3 ADDITIONAL WALL SIGN PERMITTED TO FACE SIDE OR REAR PARKING LOT. Lots with parking to the side or rear of a building shall be allowed to erect one additional wall sign facing the parking lot, provided that at least 50 percent of the required parking for the establishment is located to the side or rear of the building and an entrance to the establishment faces the parking lot. The secondary wall sign may not be placed on the same building wall as the primary sign. 11.8.2.4 LOCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR WALL SIGNS. No wall sign may extend more than eighteen inches from the exterior of the wall and no portion of a sign shall extend above the wall on which it is mounted.