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• • DRAFT REVISIONS CITY OF LINO LAKES DRAFT March 6, 2008 COUNTY OF ANOKA ORDINANCE NO. 05-05 xx -08 AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 12 97 05 -05 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING SIGNS IN THE CITY OF LINO LAKES, ANOKA COUNTY, MINNESOTA. The City Council of the City of Lino Lakes ordains that Ordinance No. 1 . 97 05 -05 is amended as follows: SECTION I. PURPOSE, INTENT, AND FINDINGS It is not the purpose or intent of this sign ordinance to regulate the message displayed on any sign; nor is it the purpose or intent to regulate any building design or any display not defined as a sign, or any sign which cannot be viewed from outside a building. Rather, the purpose and findings of the sign ordinance are as follows: a) Purpose: the sign ordinance is intended to establish a comprehensive and balanced system of sign control that accommodates the need for a well - maintained, safe, and attractive community, and the need for effective communications including business identification. It is the intent of this sectionordinance, to promote the health, safety, general welfare, aesthetics, and image of the community by regulating signs that are intended to communicate to the public, and to use signs which meet the city's goals by authorizing: 1) permanent signs which establish a high standard of aesthetics; 2) signs which are compatible with their surroundings; 3) signs which are designed, constructed, installed and maintained in a manner that does not adversely impact public safety or unduly distract motorists; 4) signs which are large enough to convey the intended message and to help citizens find their way to intended destinations; 5) signs that are proportioned to the scale of, and are architecturally compatible with, principal structures; 6) permanent signs which give preference to the on- premise owner or occupant; and 7) temporary commercial signs and advertising displays which provide an opportunity for grand openings and occasional sales events while restricting signs which create continuous visual clutter and hazards at public right -of -way intersections. b) Findings: the city of Lino Lakes finds it is necessary for the promotion and preservation of the public health, safety, welfare and aesthetics of the community that the DRAFT REVISIONS TO Ordinance 05 -05, Sign Ordinance page 1 of 29