Tuscaloosa Sign Permit Application Form – Fill Out and Use This PDF

	City of Tuscaloosa			Planning & Development Services
				2201 University Boulevard
	Sign Permit Application			PH: 205-248-5110
				FAX: 205-349-0136
	Business Name: ________________________________		Full Estimated Value:
	Site Address: _________________________________		____________________________________________
	City: ___________________ State:____ Zip: ________		Number of Signs: _____________________________
	PH: __________________________________________		Work Class:	New Construction Addition
			Alterations Remodel Repairs Move
	Property/Inspection District:		Electrical Upgrade Demo
	City Police Jurisdiction	Fire
	Historical Recovery DROD		Foundation:	Pole Slab Footing
	Flood Hazard Area: Yes	None	Other ________________
	Property Owner Information:		Sign Installer/Contractor Information:
	Name: ________________________________________		Name: _______________________________________
	Address: ______________________________________		Address: _____________________________________
	City: ___________________ State:____ Zip: ________		City: ___________________ State:____ Zip: _______
	PH: __________________________________________		PH: _________________________________________
	Applicant/Contact Person:		E-MAIL: _____________________________________
	Name: ________________________________________		License Information: City #: ____________________
	PH: __________________________________________		General Contractor #: ___________________________

Multifamily Residential Sign

Other: _______________

SEE THE BACK OF THIS APPLICATION FOR A LISTING OF ALL SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PERMIT IS CONDITIONED UPON THE CORRECTNESS OF THE INFORMATION I HAVE SUPPLIED ABOVE AND MAY BE REVOKED UPON A FINDING BY THE BUILDING OR ZONING OFFICAL THAT ANY RELEVANT ITEM OF INFORMATION IS SUBSTANTIALLY INCORRECT. I FUTHER UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PERMIT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID UNLESS CONSTRUCTION ON THE SIGN HAS SUBSTANTIALLY COMMENCED WITHIN THREE (3) MONTHS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH THIS PERMIT IS ISSUED. I CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS TRUE AND CORRECT.

Print Name: __________________________________	Payment Method: Cash Check Other
Signature: _____________________ Date: _________	Payment Data: _____________________________

Applicability

No person shall erect, alter, relocate, repair, replace the face of, or change a sign without first obtaining a permit, except for the following actions which shall not require a permit:

1.Changing the copy, announcement, or message on a changeable copy sign;

2.Cleaning, painting, or comparable maintenance of a sign that does not alter the size, image or message of the sign;

3.Erecting a sign for which a permit is not required in accordance with Section 24-134 (Signs Allowed Without Permit) of the City of Tuscaloosa Municipal Code.

SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS

No request for a sign permit shall be considered complete until all of the following has been submitted:

Complete sign permit application

Site plan of development site (for free standing signs only) including:

•Location of any freestanding signs

•Property lines

•Public rights of ways and easements

•Buildings

Drawing of main or entry façade, including linear dimensions (for building/wall signs only)

Pictures or renderings showing the dimensions, elevations, and messages of all signs

Renderings showing the dimensions of any support structures for signs

Maximum and minimum height of sign as measured from finished grade (for free standing signs only)

For any illuminated signs, indicate type and placement of illumination

Inventory of number, type, location, and display area of all existing signs on the same property and/or building on which the sign is to be located.

For any sign that contains electronic, digital or video components, the business owner or manger must acknowledge their understanding of the “Limitations & Restrictions of Electronic, Digital, or Video Signage” by signing below.

Some sign applications shall require a State of Alabama registered architect or engineer’s seal and a written statement certifying that said sign structure(s) complies with the building code requirements concerning the same.

LIMITATIONS & RESTRICTIONS OF ELECTRONIC, DIGITAL OR VIDEO SIGNAGE

The use of electronic, digital or video technology in signs is permitted and allowed, subject to the following limitations and additional restrictions:

(a)Such technology shall be programmed so that the message or image on the sign changes no more often than once every eight (8) seconds.

(b)There shall be no effects of movement, blinking, animation, scrolling, flashing, scintillation, or similar effects in the individual images.

(c)Changes of image shall be instantaneous as seen by the human eye and shall not use fading, rolling, window shading, dissolving, or similar effects as part of the change.

(d)Video technology in signs shall use automatic level controls to reduce light levels at night and under cloudy and other darkened conditions, in accordance with the following standards. All electronic, video or digital display unit signs shall have installed ambient light monitors, and shall at all times allow such monitors to automatically adjust the brightness level of the electronic sign based on ambient light conditions. Maximum brightness levels for electronic, video or digital display signs shall not exceed five thousand (5,000) nits when measured from the signs face at its maximum brightness, during daylight hours, and five hundred (500) nits when measured from the signs face at its maximum brightness between sunset and sunrise, as those times are determined by the National Weather Service.

(e)Any changeable copy sign using electronic, digital or video technology which malfunctions, fails or ceases to operate in its usual or normal programmed manner, causing motion, movement, flashing or any similar effects, shall be restored to its normal operation conforming within this section within forty-eight (48) hours unless the Director of the Tuscaloosa Department of Transportation considers such malfunction to be a hazard to the health, safety and welfare of the public and orders the sign to be turned off, disconnected or disabled.

(f)Any changeable copy freestanding sign using electronic, digital or video technology shall not exceed fifty (50) square feet in area excepting therefrom billboards as set forth in subsection (4).

(g)No billboard or sign containing a commercial message related to goods, services, products or other commercial activities that are not offered on the same premises on which the sign is located shall be permitted and allowed except in those locations where billboards are permitted and allowed.

Print Name: ___________________________ Signature: _____________________________ Date: ____________