Boonville Signs allowed ordinance (Appendix C, Section 7.3-21)
Appendix C: Zoning · Part 7. Accessory Uses and Buildings
The following sign standards by zoning districts shall apply in the City of Boonville. The districts are as defined by the zoning ordinance and official zoning map. Historic areas and landmarks are as designated by BHPAC. Only signs as described herein and as may be described under section 7.3-14 shall be permitted.
(a) Churches, public and semipublic buildings, hospitals and institutions in R Districts may have one bulletin board not more than 32 square feet in area.
(b) Only those signs permitted in (a), temporary signs not more than six square feet in area pertaining to lease or sale of premises and nameplates when nonilluminated and not greater in area than four square feet are allowed in an R District.
(c) Detached signs. Each establishment may
be allowed one on-premises sign, provided a minimum of 50 feet of street frontage is available. Establishments may be allowed an additional on-premises detached sign, provided both signs are located a minimum of 120 feet from one another along the street frontage of the tract of land. Establishments in M-1 Districts may be allowed a third detached sign, provided all signs are located a minimum of 120 feet from one another along the street frontage of the tract of land.
No part of the detached sign structure or its advertising content shall be placed or extend into any street, street right-of-way or private property other than the property owned by the establishment.
Surface area of the sign shall be in proportion to the setback of the sign from the center of the traveled portion, including parking area of the nearest public roadway.
In the C-2 and M-1 Districts, four square feet in sign surface area shall be allowed per foot of setback distance (Area = 4 × setback distance). In the C-1 District, two square feet in sign surface shall be allowed per foot of setback distance (Area = 2 × setback distance). The height of such sign shall be in proportion to the setback of the sign from the center of the traveled portion, including the parking area of the nearest roadway. In the C-1, C-2 and M-1 Districts for every foot setback from the center of the traveled portion, including parking area of the nearest public roadway, one foot in sign height shall be allowed. Height = 1 × setback distance with a maximum height of 60 feet being allowed, height being measured from the ground to the top of the sign. The height of the advertising content shall be at least seven feet above the ground.
(d) A detached sign may be permitted on land
immediately adjacent to and along the rightof-way of federal interstate freeways and United States highways, excluding desig-
nated business routes, provided that such detached signs shall be a maximum height of 60 feet and a maximum size of 800 square feet, provided that no point on such signs shall be farther than 1,320 feet back from the right-of-way of said federal interstate freeways and United States highways, provided that no detached sign along such freeways or highways shall be erected closer than 200 feet from an existing residential structure, and provided that such detached signs shall be erected so as to be viewed from said federal interstate freeways and United States highways. There will be a limitation under this subparagraph of one sign per business location; however, this limitation should not be construed to limit other signs allowed under subparagraphs of this section.
All signs within the limits of the City of Boonville which are adjacent to federal and state highways will be subject to the pertinent regulations of the governing jurisdiction. In addition, signs in the glide path of Boonville Municipal Airport will be subject to regulations of the F.A.A.
Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 7.3-21
Text from Supplement 8 (December 2025), through Ordinance 4678 of December 16, 2024.
Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.