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MINNETONKA, PAGE 2 OF 5 public safety. b) Regulations. Dynamic displays on signs are allowed subject to the following conditions: 1) Dynamic displays are allowed only on monument and pylon signs for conditionally permitted uses in residential districts and for all uses in other districts. Dynamic displays may occupy no more than 35 percent of the actual copy and graphic area. The remainder of the sign must not have the capability to have dynamic displays even if not used. Only one, contiguous dynamic display area is allowed on a sign face; 2) A dynamic display may not change or move more often than once every 20 minutes, except one for which changes are necessary to correct hour-and-minute, date, or temperature information. Time, date, or temperature information is considered one dynamic display and may not be included as a component of any other dynamic display. A display of time, date, or temperature must remain for at least 20 minutes before changing to a different display, but the time, date, or temperature information itself may change no more often than once every three seconds; 3) The images and messages displayed must be static, and the transition from one static display to another must be instantaneous without any special effects; 4) The images and messages displayed must be complete in themselves, without continuation in content to the next image or message or to any other sign; 5) Every line of copy and graphics in a dynamic display must be at least seven inches in height on a road with a speed limit of 25 to 34 miles per hour, nine inches on a • road with a speed limit of 35 to 44 miles per hour, 12 inches on a road with a speed limit of 45 to 54 miles per hour, and 15 inches on a road with a speed limit of 55 miles per hour or more. If there is insufficient room for copy and graphics of this size in the area allowed under clause 1 above, then no dynamic display is allowed; 6) Dynamic displays must be designed and equipped to freeze the device in one position if a malfunction occurs. The displays must also be equipped with a means to immediately discontinue the display if it malfunctions, and the sign owner must immediately stop the dynamic display when notified by the city that it is not complying with the standards of this ordinance; 7) Dynamic displays must comply with the brightness standards contained in subdivision 15; 8) Dynamic displays existing on June 25, 2007 must comply with the operational standards listed above. An existing dynamic display that does not meet the structural requirements in clause 1 may continue as anon-conforming development subject to section 300.29. An existing dynamic display that cannot meet the minimum size requirement in clause 5 must use the largest size possible for one line of copy to fit in the available space. c) Incentives. Outdoor advertising signs do not need to serve the same way-finding function as do on-premises signs. Further, outdoor advertising signs are no longer allowed in the city, and there is no potential that they will proliferate. Finally, outdoor MinnetonkaSignOrdinance.rtf - 2/5- 23 May 20A8