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" . Mounds View Municipal Code. Any conditional use permit issued for an interim use billboard shall automatically expire no later than January 1, 2015 or when the lease aweement for the billboard expires whichever date is earlier. Such CUP shall be null- and- void if the applicant fails to obtain any required permit from the State of Minnesota. b. LOCATION: The billboard must be located alon~ and north of State Hi~hway 10 (118) . The applicant must have an approved lease a~reement with the property owner. The billboard shall be oriented towards State Hi~hway 10 (118) and/or 135W Billboards must be located at least 250 feet from residentially zoned property. Billboards may be located adjacent to the ri~ht-of-way of a street or hi~hway, but no part thereof shall extend over such ri~ht-of-way. c. MINIMUM SPACING: Billboards must be at least 1000 feet apart. Spacin~ between si~ns shall be measured by projectin~ the nearest points of the si~ns to the property line of the ri~ht-of-way from which they are intended to be read and measurin~ the distance in a strai~ht line between the projected points. Required spacin~ shall apply only to billboards on the same side of the same roadway. . d MAXIMUM SIGN AREA: The maximum woss surface display area of the si~n cannot exceed 700 square teet per side except that any rectan~ular billboard may contain temporary extensions, cutouts, or top letterin~ which occupy a total area not in excess of twenty-five (25) percent of the area of the basic billboard and form an intewal part of the desi~n thereof No such temporary extension, cut out, or top letterin~ may project more than six (6) feet from the top, ei~hteen (18) inches from either side or fifteen (15) inches from the bottom of the basic rectan~ular advertisin~ messa~e. The area of an extension, cutout, or top letterin~ shall be deemed to be the area of the smallest rectan~le into which such extension, cutout, or top letterin~ will fit. e. ORIENTATION OF SIGN FACES: Billboards may have no more than two (2) si~n faces. Si~n faces must be back-to-back with si~n faces parallel or an~led All billboards with their faces back-to-back and parallel shall have no weater distance than ei~ht (8) feet between the faces. All billboards with faces at an an~le shall have no weater an~le than thirty-five (35) dewees. f MAXIMUM SIGN HEIGHT: The maximum allowable hei~ht of billboards shall be thirty-five (35) feet. The hei~ht shall be measured from the ~rade at the base of the si~n or from the surface of the roadway whichever is hi~her. g OBSTRUCTION: No billboard may be located in such a manner as to obscure or otherwise interfere with the effectiveness of an official traffic si~n, si~nal, or device, or obstruct or interfere with a driver:S view of approachin~, mer~in~, or intersectin~ traffic. . Any billboard le~ally existin~ on the effective date of this ordinance may continue to be maintained in its present form and size but not expanded This does not preclude the periodic chan~e of the messa~e or advertisement presented on the billboard M:\ 1999\Ordinances\644 .doc