Only permitted signs may be constructed, erected, or maintained within the village. No other signs are permitted, including but not limited to commercial business signs, billboard advertising, snipe signs, personal property sale signs, professional services signs, illuminated signs, or any other signs of a commercial, mercantile, industrial, or marketing [nature], propaganda, instructional, or other sign of any nature or intent. Permitted signs must be installed only upon application to the village, posting of a bond, approval by the village, and payment of a fee of not less than $100.00 or 25 percent of [the value of] such sign whichever is more.

Permitted signs include:

(1)

Traffic control signs. Signs shall be permitted for the direction and control of vehicular, pedestrian, aviation and marine transport traffic. Such signs are to be located only in the street right-of-way or on or adjacent to the bulkheads as conditions dictate, unless otherwise approved by the village by motion. Such signs shall adhere to the aesthetic and design standards of the village.

(2)

Real estate for sale signs. As an exclusive residential community, the need for such signs is very limited. Owing to the slow speed of the vehicle, close proximity of the passenger to the property, need to protect first amendment rights and the aesthetics of discreet carefully standardized artistic design, the following design and placement standards shall be adhered to.

Size: Not larger than 40 square inches.

Format: One side only.

Materials:

Background and mount color: Pantone #556, a medium moss green.

Trim/accent/hairline border: Pantone #443, a medium moss grey.

Text colors: Pantone #344, a light moss green.

Sign material may only be smooth sealed wood, signboard or sheetmetal, primed and painted a minimum of two coats in gloss letters on matte background and gloss foreground. Mount material must be a smooth routed wooden frame, with interior and exterior quarter round molding detail. Sign is to be mounted within the frame with no edges of the sign showing. The mount is to include two two-inch by two-inch vertical standards one each at each side end of the mount, pointed at the bottom end to facilitate penetration into the ground, and topped at the other end with a wooden ball turning not larger than three inches in diameter to terminate the standards.

Height above the ground: The top of the sign and mount shall be not more than 12 inches above the finished grade of the ground or lawn.

Content: In addition to such real estate message as the author may wish, the sign must contain at a minimum the word "Inquire" in capital and lower case four-inch-high Times Roman font text and centered horizontally, and followed below with the phone number for contact, in 2½-inch-high Times Roman italic font and centered horizontally. Any other text must be one inch high or less, in Script font, justified and at the bottom of the sign. No bold text is permitted.

Placement: The mount and sign shall be placed onsite, at the front of the property within three feet of the edge of an entrance drive to the site, generally parallel to the street and blended into the composition of the landscape of the site. The sign may only remain so long as the property is actively on the market, as evidenced by monthly report to the village manager containing copies of current advertising, and providing that the sign and property is fully maintained.

Number permitted: One per site.

(3)

Facilities identification sign. Each site shall bear the site number as established by the village in a size not to exceed six inches in font height. Said site number shall be visible to emergency vehicles on the adjacent public right-of-way and of a typeface that is easily read from adjacent public right-of-way. An optional location or sentimental reference name of the facility may be included in text not exceeding four inches in font height, and not exceeding six words. Names of the owner, business, occupants, or current or past residents may be displayed. No other sign may be placed on the site so as to be visible from the street or bay. The overall size, placement, aesthetic design, and engineering of the sign shall be subject to the approval of the village. Such signs may only be indirectly illuminated and only to such intensity as is minimally necessary to permit observation of the site number at night from within a vehicle. No direct lighting is permitted. No such lighting source may be seen by any other site.

(4)

No trespass posted land signs. In conformance with F.S. ch 810, on vacant lands upon which trespass is intended to be prohibited by the owner, the minimum number of no trespass posted land signs shall be placed at each corner and not more than 500 feet apart along the property boundary. The design standards shall be equal to that of the real estate for sale signs except that the text shall be as follows:

Content: The sign must contain the words "No Trespassing" in capital and lower case letters not smaller than 2½-inch-high Times Roman font text and centered horizontally, and followed below with the name of the owner, lessee, or occupant. No bold text is permitted.

All permitted signs shall be maintained at all times in a complete, clean, straight (at right angles or parallel to horizontal), neat, finished condition, free of rust, corrosion, peeling coatings, and weathered, faded condition, unless an approved component of the aesthetic design.