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Article 5 — [RESERVED] ARTICLE 6: SIGNS›SEC. 608. SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICTS AND SIGNS IN SPECIAL USE DISTRICTS.

SEC. 608.9. JACKSON SQUARE SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.

San Francisco Planning Code · 2025 edition · updated 2026-07-25 · San Francisco

There shall be a special sign district known as the "Jackson Square Special Sign District," as designated on Sectional Map SSD of the Zoning Map of the City and County of San Francisco. The original copy of said Sectional Map with this Special Sign District indicated thereon is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors under File No. [Ord. No.] 276-72.

(a) Purposes and Findings.

(1) In addition to furthering the purposes stated in Sections 101 and 601 of this Code, creation of the Jackson Square Special Sign District is intended to further the purposes of the Jackson Square Historic District created pursuant to Ordinance No. 221-72 and to foster the preservation and enhancement of said Historic District.

(2) The standards established by these regulations are deemed to be minimum requirements. They are not intended in any way to preclude further design refinement or review by duly constituted private organizations which might consider more restrictive requirements as to any aspects limited herein, or as to additional aspects such as materials, color, graphics, types of

representation, relationship of signs to one another and to architectural features, or the general quality of design.

(b) Regulations. Within such Special Sign District:

(1) The Area of all Signs on a building shall not exceed an area of two square feet for each foot of street frontage occupied by the building, and shall in no event exceed a total of 100 square feet on each street frontage.

(2) No Projection shall exceed a horizontal distance of six feet beyond any Street Property Line. This limitation shall apply to Signs and to all other features including but not limited to Marquees and Awnings, with the sole exception of flagpoles for flags of any nation or political subdivision. All Signs, Marquees, Awnings and other features shall be supported entirely by a building; no Canopies shall be permitted.

(3) Projecting Signs for each establishment shall be limited to one Sign on each street frontage occupied by the establishment.

(4) All Signs shall be placed entirely below the level of the lowest cornice or strong horizontal element located above the ground story of the building, but in no event higher than three feet above the top of the ceiling level of the ground story.

(5) No Directly Illuminated Sign shall be permitted.

(Added by Ord. 223-72, App. 8/9/72; amended by Ord. 217-16, File No. 160424, App. 11/10/2016, Eff. 12/10/2016)

AMENDMENT HISTORY

Section header amended; former divisions (b)(1), (b)(3), and (b)(4) deleted; former divisions (b)(2) and (b)(5)–(b)(8) amended and redesignated as (b)(1)–(b)(5); Ord. 217-16, Eff. 12/10/2016.

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San Francisco Planning Code
  1. Article 1 — GENERAL ZONING PROVISIONS
  2. Article 1.2 — DIMENSIONS, AREAS, AND OPEN SPACES
  3. Article 1.5 — TRANSPORTATION, OFF-STREET PARKING, AND LOADING
  4. Article 1.7 — COMPLIANCE
  5. Article 2 — USE DISTRICTS
  6. Article 2.5 — HEIGHT AND BULK DISTRICTS
  7. Article 3 — ZONING PROCEDURES
  8. Article 3.5 — FEES
  9. Article 4 — DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES AND PROJECT REQUIREMENTS T…
  10. ▸ Article 5 — [RESERVED] ARTICLE 6: SIGNS
    Overview
    1. SEC. 604. PERMITS AND CONFORMITY REQUIRED.
    2. SEC. 607.1. NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL-COMMERCIAL…
    3. SEC. 607.2. MIXED USE DISTRICTS.
    4. SEC. 607.3. [REPEALED.]
    5. SEC. 607.4. [REPEALED.]
    6. ▸ SEC. 608. SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICTS AND SIGNS IN SPECIAL USE DIST…
      Overview
      1. SEC. 608.1. NEAR R DISTRICTS.
      2. SEC. 608.2. NEAR SCHOOLS, PARKS, AND RECREATION FACILITIES.
      3. SEC. 608.3. CIVIC CENTER SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICTS.
      4. SEC. 608.4. TRANSIT CENTER SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
      5. SEC. 608.5. NEAR FREEWAYS.
      6. SEC. 608.6. NEAR CERTAIN SCENIC STREETS.
      7. SEC. 608.7. NEAR RAPID TRANSIT ROUTES.
      8. SEC. 608.8. MARKET STREET SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
      9. SEC. 608.9. JACKSON SQUARE SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
      10. SEC. 608.10. STONESTOWN SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
      11. SEC. 608.11. HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL CENTERS IN R DISTRICTS ADJA…
      12. SEC. 608.12. 555 9TH STREET SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
      13. SEC. 608.13. IN THE RINCON HILL DOWNTOWN RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE…
      14. SEC. 608.15. NORTHEAST WATERFRONT SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
      15. SEC. 608.16. CITY CENTER SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
      16. SEC. 608.17. [REPEALED.]
      17. SEC. 608.18. 3250 19TH AVENUE SPECIAL SIGN DISTRICT.
    7. SEC. 609. AMORTIZATION PERIODS.
  11. Article 7 — NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
  12. Article 8 — MIXED USE DISTRICTS
  13. Article 9 — MISSION BAY DISTRICTS
  14. Part I — SCOPE, PURPOSE AND RELATIONSHIPS
  15. Part II — USES
  16. Part III — DENSITY
  17. Part IV — HEIGHT
  18. Part V — BUILDING FORM
  19. Part VI — OPEN AREAS
  20. Part VII — PARKING
  21. Part VIII — SIGNS
  22. Part X — OFFICE SPACE LIMITATION
  23. Part XI — HISTORIC PRESERVATION
  24. Part XII — RULES FOR NONCONFORMING USES AND NONCOMPLYING STRUC…
  25. Part XIII — COMPLIANCE, PERMIT APPROVAL AND ENFORCEMENT
  26. Part XIV — FEES
  27. Part XV — DEFINITIONS
  28. Part XVI — SEVERABILITY

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