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MINNETONKA, PAGE 3 OF 5 <br />advertising signs are in themselves distracting and their removal serves public safety. The <br />city is extremely limited in its ability to cause the removal of those signs. This clause is <br />intended to provide incentives for the voluntary and uncompensated removal of outdoor <br />advertising signs in certain settings. This removal results in an overall advancement of <br />one or more of the goals set forth in this section that should more than offset any <br />additional burden caused by the incentives. These provisions are also based on the <br />recognition that the incentives create an opportunity to consolidate outdoor advertising <br />services that would otherwise remain distributed throughout the community. <br />1) A person may obtain a permit for an enhanced dynamic display on one face of <br />an outdoor advertising sign if the following requirements are met: <br />(a) The applicant agrees in writing to permanently remove, within 15 days after <br />issuance of the permit, at least two other faces of an outdoor advertising sign in the city <br />that are owned or leased by the applicant, each of which must satisfy the criteria of parts <br />(b) through (d) of this subsection. This removal must include the complete removal of <br />the structure and foundation supporting each sign face. The applicant must agree that the <br />city may remove the sign if the applicant does not timely do so, and the application must <br />be accompanied by a cash deposit or letter of credit acceptable to the city attorney <br />sufficient to pay the city's costs for that removal. The applicant must also agree that it is <br />removing the sign voluntarily and that it has no right to compensation for the removed <br />sign under any law. <br />(b) The city has not previously issued an enhanced dynamic display permit <br />based on the removal of the particular faces relied upon in this permit application. <br />re feet <br />288 <br />l <br />f <br />squa <br />east <br />at <br />(c) Each removed sign has a copy and graphic area o <br />and satisfies two or more of the following additional criteria: <br />(1) The removed sign is located adjacent to a highway with more than two <br />regular lanes and with a general speed limit of 45 miles per hour or greater, but that does <br />not have restrictions on access equivalent to those of an interstate highway; <br />(2) All or a substantial portion of the structure for the removed sign was <br />constructed before 1975 and has not been substantially improved; <br />(3) The removed sign is located in a noncommercial zoning district; <br />(4) The removed sign is located in a special planning area designated in the <br />1999 comprehensive plan; or <br />(5) The removed copy and graphic area is equal to or or greater than the area <br />of the copy and graphic area for which the enhanced dynamic display permit is sought. <br />(d) If the removed sign face is one for which a state permit is required by state <br />law, the applicant must surrendered its permit to the state upon removal of the sign. The <br />sign that is the subject of the enhanced dynamic display permit cannot begin to operate <br />until proof is provided to the city that the state permit has been surrendered. <br />(e) The applicant must agree in writing that no dynamic displays will ever be <br />used on one additional outdoor advertising sign that has a copy and graphic area of at <br />least 288 square feet in size. This agreement will be binding on the applicant and all <br />MinnetonkaSignOrdinance.rtf - 3/5- 23 May 208 <br />