18B.30.080 Key Peninsula Community Plan Area.
The purpose of this Section is to create the legal framework for a comprehensive but balanced system of signs and thereby facilitate easy and pleasant communication between people and their environment for unincorporated Pierce County west of the Purdy Spit Bridge. Signs include any physical structure designed to communicate some message to the public. Special emphasis is made in this Section to promote the use of signs that reflect both the natural surroundings and the social attitudes of the Key Peninsula residents while allowing the maximum amount of flexibility in design.
The following regulations apply to signs within the Key Peninsula Community Plan area, in addition to the Countywide Sign Design Regulations of Chapter 18B.20 PCC.
A. Key Peninsula Prohibited Signs. See PCC 18B.30.080 C. below for Areas of Special Control in the Key Peninsula Community Plan area, in addition to signs that are prohibited in Pierce County, PCC 18B.10.070.
B. Design, Character and Color.
1. Signs shall be constructed with the use of natural materials such as wood, rock, stone or decorative masonry or with products made from recycled materials that look like these natural materials. The emphasis should be on craftsmanship and materials detailing an organic quality. Wall signs may also utilize some other types of materials, such as metal or resin compounds, provided that these components also portray a rural or rustic look and character;
2. Signs shall be designed with details that reflect a rural or rustic character and to relate to the character of the buildings and/or the uses they identify;
3. Franchises are subject to the same signage regulations as other commercial uses, and shall use the minimum amount of signage and building features to convey corporate identity; and
4. Indirect illumination shall be the only permitted form of lighting.
C. Areas of Special Control. Any required landscaping area or natural buffer area described in Table 18J.15.040-1, Rural State Route and Highway Buffering, shall be considered an area of special control and shall be subject to the following regulations:
1. Monument signs are the only category of sign permitted in areas of special control; and
2. Vegetation up to a maximum cleared area of 200 square feet outright and up to 400 square feet with an Administrative Use Permit (AUP) pursuant to PCC 18A.75.020, may be cleared to provide space for a permitted monument sign. Replanting of low growing native landscaping shall be required around the sign. The Director shall approve an AUP application filed under this Section only if all of the AUP required findings and the following findings can be made:
a. That additional clearing is the minimum necessary to provide adequate visibility of the proposed sign from the right-of-way; and
b. Additional clearing is the minimum necessary to ensure adequate sight distances as required in the Road Regulations contained in Chapter 17B.10 PCC.
D. Off-Site Signs.
1. Businesses in Key Peninsula rural commercial centers that do not have frontage on SR-302 or the Key Peninsula Highway or have less than 100 feet of frontage may have one off-site business identification sign.
a. Businesses shall be required to consolidate these signs on individual monument sign support structures near a location where customers would leave SR-302 or the Key Peninsula Highway to access the business location.
b. The size and text copy allowed on the sign shall be subject to the regulations contained in the Key Peninsula Sign Table.
2. Home occupations, cottage industries, and agricultural uses located within the Key Peninsula Community Plan area shall be allowed to display off-site directional signs on private property. These signs shall require a sign permit. Each sign shall have a consistent appearance based on community established design criteria for size and color. The number of signs permitted shall be the minimum number necessary to provide directions at those intersections requiring a change of direction between SR-302, or the Key Peninsula Highway, to the business location.
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Table 18B.30.080-1. Key Peninsula Sign Table Rural Residential, Resource Lands, and Overlays |
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Average Lanes and Speeds |
Items of Information |
Wall |
Freestanding |
Projecting |
Roof (coverage as per wall graphics) |
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Area (SF) |
Height |
Area (SF) |
Height (feet) |
Area (SF) |
Height |
Below Peak |
Above Peak |
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2 |
10 |
10 |
6 |
--see FIGURE 18B.30-2-- |
6 |
10 |
6 |
--see FIGURE 18B.30-2-- |
no |
no |
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15 |
10 |
8 |
8 |
10 |
8 |
no |
no |
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20 |
10 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
no |
no |
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25 |
10 |
16 |
16 |
12 |
16 |
no |
no |
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30 |
10 |
20 |
20 |
12 |
20 |
no |
no |
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35 |
10 |
25 |
25 |
14 |
no |
no |
no |
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40 |
10 |
30 |
30 |
14 |
no |
no |
no |
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45 |
10 |
35 |
35 |
14 |
no |
no |
no |
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50 |
10 |
48 |
48 |
14 |
no |
no |
no |
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Table 18B.30.080-2. Key Peninsula Sign Table Rural Center Zones |
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Average Lanes and Speeds |
Items of Information |
Wall |
Freestanding |
Projecting |
Roof (coverage as per wall graphics) |
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Area (SF) |
Height |
Area (SF) |
Height (feet) |
Area (SF) |
Height |
Below Peak |
Above Peak |
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2 |
10 |
10 |
8 |
--see FIGURE 18B.30-2-- |
8 |
12 |
8 |
--see FIGURE 18B.30-2-- |
yes |
no |
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15 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
12 |
10 |
yes |
no |
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20 |
10 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
yes |
no |
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25 |
10 |
18 |
18 |
14 |
18 |
yes |
no |
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30 |
10 |
25 |
25 |
16 |
25 |
yes |
no |
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35 |
10 |
34 |
34 |
16 |
34 |
yes |
no |
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40 |
10 |
42 |
42 |
18 |
no |
no |
no |
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45 |
10 |
50 |
50 |
20 |
no |
no |
no |
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50 |
10 |
68 |
68 |
20 |
no |
no |
no |
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