9.02.040 Display of assigned street number required.
A. Except for accessory buildings or buildings classified by the Building Code as a Group U Occupancy, no certificate of occupancy shall be issued or final inspection approved, and no person shall occupy or allow occupancy of any building, unless a street number assigned under BC 9.02.010 through 9.02.070 is displayed on the building in accordance with the following requirements:
1. Numbers shall be plainly visible and legible as determined by the building official from the street or accessways;
2. Numbers shall be displayed on the building to which they are assigned. As an alternative to displaying the numbers on the building, the building official may approve the display of an assigned number on an accessory building when the orientation of the accessory building or monument sign affords better visibility of the building’s address from the street or accessway.
3. Numbers displayed on one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses facing the street or accessway shall be no less than four inches in height. Numbers displayed on buildings other than one and two family dwellings and townhouses facing the street or accessway shall be no less than six inches in height. The building official may require numbers displayed on a building to be larger than the minimum height if a larger height is needed to make the numbers plainly visible and legible from the street or accessway;
4. Numbers shall be in wide stroke block numerical form. Scroll numbers, spelled numbers or numbers on mailboxes may be used in addition to those in numerical form but shall not be considered adequate substitutes;
5. When a complex of commercial, multifamily and/or townhouse buildings are assigned separate unit numbers or more than one street number, and all unit numbers or street numbers do not face a single street or accessway, a directory sign shall be displayed indicating where the buildings and assigned street numbers or unit numbers are located. The directory sign shall be provided in addition to the numbers required to be displayed on the buildings. Directory signs shall be located and plainly visible and legible from each vehicular access into the site from a street. Directory signs shall indicate all buildings, streets and accessways within the complex. The building official may also require directional signs within the complex indicating the assigned street numbers or unit numbers for buildings abutting the accessway. Directional signs shall be plainly visible from the accessway;
6. Numbers shall be of a contrasting color to the background to which they are attached;
7. Numbers shall be arranged in a horizontal, or near horizontal, configuration. The arrangement shall not exceed 45 degrees from horizontal.
8. Numbers shall not be covered or obscured by landscaping, fencing, accessory structures, vehicles or other objects that impair their visibility from the street or accessway.
B. All buildings and structures in existence on or before March 5, 2001 may continue to display their assigned address numbers in accordance with Ordinance No. 3885. The display of address numbers for all buildings or structures not in existence on or before March 5, 2001 shall comply with the requirements of subsection A. [BC 9.02.040, amended by Ordinance No. 3885, 2/14/94; amended by Ordinance No. 4145, 3/5/01]