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the depressed street or highway or when erected within a rectangle fifteen <br />hundred (1,500) feet wide and one thousand (1,000) feet long at an elevated <br />intersection of a Farm to Market Road, a Texas highway or a U.S. highway <br />intersection with Loop 286, such rectangle extending inside Loop 286 five hundred <br />(500) feet from the center point of said intersection and one thousand (1,000) feet <br />outside of Loop 286 from such center point of such intersection. If a permit <br />application is received for a pole sign to be located within the aforedescribed <br />rectangles, a specific use permit may be issued in accordance with the procedure <br />established in section 28-43, which would establish the height of such sign and the <br />size of such sign not to exceed a maximum of three hundred (300) square feet. No <br />pole sign shall be erected within twenty (20) feet of any residence. <br />(g) Swinging signs. Detached and hanging signs shall be engineered to withstand a <br />wind load of 30 pounds per square foot. <br />(h) Temporarysigns. Temporary or portable signs, except as permitted in Section <br />28-10.1. (i) Torpedo signs. No torpedo sign shall be constructed or placed in the city which <br />fails to meet the requirements of Section 28-10.1. <br />(j) Signs on public rights-of-way. No person shall attach any sign, paper, or other <br />material or paint, stencil, or write any name or number (except house numbers) or <br />otherwise mark in any public right-of-way unless authorized by this article or by <br />the city council or its delegated representatives. <br />(k) Signs on trees, poles, etc. No person shall attach or maintain any sign upon any <br />tree, public utility pole, or public building except as designated by the inspections <br />division. <br />(1) Signs on abandoned buildings or vacant lots. No person shall place, attach, or <br />maintain any sign on vacant lots or abandoned buildings. However, on premise <br />real estate signs shall be permitted. <br />(m) Attached signs. The size of attached signs shall be limited to one (1) square <br />foot per front foot of property upon which the same is placed; however, under no <br />circumstances shall such sign exceed three hundred (300) square feet in area. If <br />the lot on which the building is located has multiple right-of-way frontage, each <br />street frontage shall be counted for purposes of determining attached sign <br />allowance. Said signage is to be applied (distributed) on the sides of the building <br />where facing directly adjacent to the public right-of-way. Alternate signage is <br />allowed on sides of the building not adjacent to the public right-of-way not to <br />exceed 32 square feet. <br />(n) Off-premise signs. No person shall place or maintain any off-premise sign other <br />than a billboard as regulated herein. <br />Page 11 of 36 <br />0 000105 <br />