Sign Specifications

City of Allen logo's will be supplied by the City of Allen at a cost to the developer.

 

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9″ Flat Street Name Blades are 0.125 gauge anodized aluminum and shall have a space on the left side of sign for the 9-inch city logo and 1.5-inch space before the first letter. Green EC film over white sheeting with 6″ letters and 3″ numbers in Highway Series B font is required. Twelve-inch cross T's and caps are required. A single hundred-block number and cardinal direction are required on the lower right corner.

15″ Overhead Street Name Blades shall have a space on the left side of sign for a 15-inch city logo and a 3.75-inch space before the first letter or number. Green EC film over white sheeting with 9-inch letters and 4″ numbers in Highway Series D font is required. A three-quarter-inch white border is required. Hundred-block numbers and cardinal directions are required on both left and right lower corners.

STOP signs shall be 30-inches or larger.
YIELD signs shall be 36-inches or larger.

All signs shall be 0.080 gauge anodized aluminum except for the 9-inch street name blades. All four-sided signs shall have 1.5-inch radius corners. All signs shall be EC film over DG-3 sheeting. All sign sizes and fonts shall conform to the 2006 Texas MUTCD. All ground mounted signs shall be galvanized 12-guage yielding breakaway ground mounted sign systems. The system shall consist of the following three elements: 1) 12-foot long 2-inch square poles with holes, 2) 30-inch long 2.25-inch square base, and 3) 18-inch long 2.5-inch square sleeve.

Rivets for sign installation shall meet the following characteristics:

Head diameter = 1”
Length = 5/8”
Stem diameter = 3/8”