the total height of the building is achieved. The position of a building setback in height factor districts is controlled by sky exposure planes and, in contextual districts, by specified distances from street walls. Sign. A whole or part of a display board, wall, screen, or object used to announce, declare, demonstrate, display, or otherwise present a message and attract the attention of the public. Sign Area. An area circumscribed by the smallest geographic shape created with a maximum of eight straight lines, which will enclose all words, letters, figures, symbols, designs, and pictures, together with all framing, background material, colored or illuminated areas, and attention-attracting devices, forming an integral part of an individual message except that: 1. Wall signs having no discernible boundary shall have the areas between letters or words intended to be read together included in any computation of surface area. 2. For spherical, cylindrical, or other three-dimensional signs the area of the sign shall be computed from the smallest twodimensional geometrical shape or shapes, which will best approximate the greatest actual surface are visible from any one direction. 3. Sign support structures are excluded. Sign Face. The surface upon which the sign message is placed. Specific Plan Area. That area shown within the heavy lines on Map titled Plan Boundary and Block Numbers Map on page 2 of section 1. Stormwater. Describes water that originates during precipitation events. Street Frontage. The length of a lot line separating a lot from one street. Streetwall (or street edge). The vertical face of one or more buildings adjacent within setback area and parallel to the public right of way. Supergraphic Sign. A sign, consisting of an image projected onto a wall or printed on vinyl, or mesh or other material with or without written text, supported and attached to a wall by an adhesive and/ or by using stranded cable and eye-bolts and/or other materials or methods, and which does not comply with the following provisions of L.A.M.C. Sections: 14.4.10, 14.4.16, 14.4.17, 14.4.18; and/or 14.4.20. Transfer. Means the conveyance of unused allowable Floor Area of a lot from a Donor Site to a Receiver Site, which is approved in accordance with the requirements of this Plan. Transfer Plan means a plan which identifies and describes the Donor Site(s), Receiver Site(s), amount of Floor Area Rights to be
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