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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL JUNE 27, 1990 commercial boundary with the City of Roseville and stated that he would accept Roseville's sign ordinance. That ordinance requires free-standing signs to be setback 30 feet from the property line. Scalze stated that she felt the City's sign ordinance was liberal and felt that if the ordinance needed to be changed, the City should go with Roseville's ordinance. Scalze was concerned with the amount of time that the Council has spent on the siqn ordinance, and £elt that the Council should not be debating the ordinance with every developer who comes in pushing for more than the ordinance allows. Blesener felt there are areas of the sign ordinance that need cleaning up, pointing out that the provision allowing for a second pylon was meant to apply to shopping centers with more than one frontage. Fahey suggested that the City Planner come up with criteria the must be met for the second pylon as well as the language necessary to allow for a separate pylon for detached buildings. Scalze pointed out that the next shopping center developed under a PUD could have five separate buildings. Scalze asked when a shopping center was a shopping center and not a bunch of detached buildings. Scalze was concerned that the City was changing the Sign Ordinance all the time. Fahey pointed out that City ordinances are continually being updated. Scalze replied that the Sign Ordinance is getting more liberal all the time. Fahey replied that the Sign Ordinance was adopted without much study and now the City is seeinq the impact. Blesener suggested that the size of free-standing signs be looked at as well. The City Planner pointed out that size of signs is regulated by the size of the buildings. The Planner suggested that 500 feet of frontage be the point where a shopping center would be allowed a second free-standing sign. Fahey agreed and suggested that the second sign be required to be set 40 feet from the corner. Page 18