To promote the public safety and convenience of streets, highways, sidewalks
and other pedestrian spaces, and public and private property within public view;
2. To reduce distractions, hazards and obstructions from signage that will have an
adverse impact on vehicular safety;
3. To discourage excessive visual competition in signage;
4. To ensure that signage will adequately aid communication and orientation,
identify uses and activities, and express local history and character;
5. To preserve or enhance town character by requiring new and replacement signage
which is compatible with the surroundings, appropriate to the type of activity to
which it pertains, expressive of the identify of individual proprietors or of the
community as a whole, and appropriately sized in its content, and
6. To encourage the use of the Town’s Sign and Design Guidelines as a recourse to
assist in the development of appropriate commercial signage and building design. 6.2.2 Definitions. See Section 11.0. “Signs.”
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6.2.3 Permitted Signs in Residence And Eleemosynary Districts. The following signs may be
erected or maintained in Residential Districts and Eleemosynary District provided such signs are in
compliance with all conditions set forth in this Section. The calculation of maximum number of signs
and maximum area of signs does not include directional signs. 1. All signs as permitted in Section 6.2.7;
2. One non-illuminated sign displaying the street number, or name of the occupant
of premises, or both, not exceeding four (4) square feet in area. Such signs may
be attached to a building or may be on a rod or post not more than six (6) feet
high and less than three (3) feet from the property lot line. Such sign may include
identification of an accessory studio or professional office in the dwelling or on
the premises, or may identify other permitted accessory uses, including allowed
home occupations. 3.