Ord 2025-001 amending the City’s Development Code and associated design manual to, among other things, align terminology with the changes made through Ordinance No. 2023-71 which adopted the “Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan

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09M;1-1i_ CID the highway corridor may be replaced with a new off- 3. It is unlawful for a person who owns an off-premises premises sign in a permissible location within the highway sign to fail to file a complete registration form in a timely corridor or outside the highway corridor. manner as required by subsection (1). A separate offense is deemed to be committed for each sign owned by the 4. Anew off-premises sign in a location outside the highway person that is not properly registered, and for each day a corridor shall not exceed the height of the existing sign it sign owned by the person is not properly registered. replaces. A new off-premises sign in the highway corridor is subject to the height restrictions in subsection (d)(2) of DIVISION 4: NEIGHBORHOOD AND CHARACTER DISTRICT SIGN this Section, and is not limited to the height of the existing sign it replaces. STANDARDS 5. New and restructured off-premises signs shall not or within a Neighborhood eighborhood Density Districts be located on property designated as a residential or Low-Existing, agricultural district by Chapter 4 if the property is inside Neighborhood Low-New, igns the City limits, or as an open space or Low Intensity Area and Conservation/Cluster on the Preferred Scenario Map of the Comprehensive Plan Place Type rectional signs are not subject to if outside the City limits. F. Off-Premises Signs with an Existing Principal Structure or B. Permitted Signage. No CEVM or Off-Premise Signs are Use. Except within the highway corridor, off-premises signs permitted erected or restructured on premises that have an existing principal structure or use are subject to the same requirements C. Temporary Signs and Banners. Temporary signs and banners that apply to permanent on-premises signs in the same are permitted in accordance with Section 7.3.1.42.6. location. D. Calculation of Size. The sign area is calculated as the largest G. Changing a Sign from Off-Premises to On-Premise.The area of the sign visible at any one time from any one point and changing of an off-premises sign to an on-premises sign by enclosed by a rectangle, including any framing or trim, but a change in the copy, except for messages advertising the not including any structural parts lying outside the limits of sign for sale or lease, and the changing of an on-premises the sign and which do not form an integral part of the display. sign to an off-premise sign requires a permit. Except within If the copy is enclosed by a box, outline or frame, area is the the highway corridor, changed signs shall comply with all total area of the enclosure. If the sign consists of individual regulations pertaining to the new use of the signs. letters, numbers or symbols on a surface or having no frame, area shall be the sum of the areas of the rectangles which can H. Off-Premises Sign Registration. encompass each portion of the copy. The area of four-side 1. A person who owns any off-premises sign within the City signs is considered the same as two double-faced signs. or its extraterritorial jurisdiction shall file with the Director Section 7.3.4.2 Illumination a complete listing, on a registration form provided by the Department, of all off-premises signs owned by the A. Specific to zones CD-1, CD-2, CD-3, ND-3, ND-3.5 person as required by this subsection. An initial listing as 1. Signage shall not be internally illuminated. of January 1, 2003 shall be filed by September 30, 2003. An updated listing as of January 1, 2006 and each three- B. Specific to zones CD-4, CD-5, ND-4, N-CM year period thereafter must be filed with the Director by February 1 of the applicable year. 1. Signage shall be externally illuminated, except as follows: 2. No fee is required in connection with the filing of a a. Signage within the shopfront glazing may be neon or registration form. LED lit. Amended: October 17, 2023 San Marcos Development Code 1:31