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area and with 2 or more business occupants engaged in retail trade. Sign. Any device, fixture, placard, or structure that is not entirely within an enclosed building, when its message is visible from a public or private way or another development site, and which uses any word, letter, or logo to advertise or to communicate information of any kind. For purposes of the Eugene sign regulations, searchlights, beacons, strings of lights, banners, flags, pennants, and inflated devices shall be considered signs. Sign Clearance. The distance between the lowest portion of a sign and the finished surface clearance of the ground, paving, or sidewalk under the sign. Sign Construction. The act of building, erecting, or otherwise placing a sign in use, including any work done on an existing sign other than sign maintenance. Sign Contractor. A person engaged in the business of sign construction or sign maintenance required to be registered by the Oregon Construction Contractors Board. Sign Direction. The direction a sign or sign element faces, including all directions in which the display copy is visible. Sign Element. That portion of a sign wholly contained within a separating sign trim or otherwise presenting a self-defined unit. Sign Face. The functional surface of a sign, including all sign elements facing in the same direction. Sign Height. The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of a sign or sign structure. All sign heights, including roof signs, shall be measured from the grade. (Refer to Figure 9.6640(3)0 Sign Height Calculation.) Sign Maintenance. work to preserve and use a sign, including manual changes in the display copy on signs designed and intended for such changes. Sign maintenance includes repairs to damaged signs unless the cost of the repair exceeds 50 percent of the value of the sign during the most recent period of use before repairs are to be initiated. Sign orientation. The general direction the sign faces from which the sign copy is designed to be seen and is most easily visible. A sign face parallel to a street and not oriented toward another direction of travel shall be considered to be oriented toward both directions of travel along the street. Sign Structure. Any materials used to support or contain a sign, but not including Ordinance - 34