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estate sign or which does not qualify under the standards for name plates and historical markers in Article V. SIGN, PROJECTING. Any sign other than a wall sign affixed to any building or wall having a principal function other than support of the sign whose leading edge extends beyond such building or wall. SIGN, ROOF. Any sign erected or constructed wholly upon and over the roof of any building and supported solely on the roof structure. SIGN, WALL. Any sign painted on or attached to the outside wall of any building and supported by such wall or building and which displays only one advertising surface. SIGN, WINDOW. Any sign or letters, pictures, symbol or combination thereof to communicate information about a business, service, commodity ~ event ~ sale or other activity placed inside a window or upon window panes or glass and which is intended to be seen from the exterior. STORY. That portion of a building wholly a~oveground included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above; or that portion of a building immediately under the roof having a floor area that is fifty (50) percent or more of the floor area of the story immediately below and with a ceiling height of at least eight (8) feet. STREET. A strip of lend'or way subject to vehieuiar traffic (which may also serve in part as a way for pedestrian traffic) fifty (50) feet or more in width and providing direct or indirect access to property including but not limited to roads, lanes, drives, trails, courts, places, terraces, alleys, avenues, highways, boulevards, or any other thoroughfare. STREET, ARTERIAL. A street designed to provide for either primary or secondary through traffic movement. Such streets shall be primarily for connection between primary highways, major secondary roads, other arterials or circumferential highways. STREET, MINOR. A street primarily designed to provide access to abutting . properties or lots within a subdivision but may also connect with streets in adjoining subdivisions. STREET, PRIVATE. A street which lies wholly on private property and which has not been dedicated to any local government. STREET, PUBLIC. An existing street or platted street dedicated and accepted for the use of the general public, graded and paved or to be graded and paved in order that every person has the right to pass and use it at all times, for all normal purposes of travel, transportation or parking to which it is adopted and devoted. STREET WIDTH. The shortest distance between the lines which delineate the right-of-way of a street. SUBDIVISION. The division of a parcel of lar. d into two (2) or more lots or parcels 10