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ORDINANCE N0.784 <br />• CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A ONE YEAR MORATORIUM <br />ON THE INSTALLATION, ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, REPLACEMENT, <br />MODIFICATION OR IMPROVEMENT OF STATIC OR CHANGING <br />ELECTRONIC, DIGITAL, VIDEO, DISPLAY SIGNS OR BILLBOARDS AND <br />FLASHING, MOTION,. ANIMATED, CHANGEABLE COPY <br />AND ILLUMINATED SIGNS IN ALL ZONING DISTRICTS <br />THE CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW DOES ORDAIN: <br />Section 1. Background. <br />1.01. The City of Mounds View regulates signs in all zoning districts; <br />1.02. Section 1008.02 of the Mounds View City Code defines certain signs as follows: <br />ANIMATED SIGN: a sign that has any moving or rotating part; or uses movement <br />or change of lighting to depict action or create a special effect or scene; <br />• CHANGEABLE COPY SIGN: a sign or portion thereof with characters, letters or <br />illustrations that can be changed or rearranged electronically or manually without <br />altering the face or the surface of the sign. A sign on which the message changes <br />more than eight (8) times a day shall be considered an animated sign for the <br />purposes of this Section. That portion of the sign on which the only copy that <br />changes is an indication of the time and temperature shall be considered a public <br />informational sign. Portable or non-permanent changeable copy signs shall, for the <br />purposes Qf this Section, be considered temporary signs. <br />FLASHING SIGN: a sign or portion thereof whose illumination is characterized by <br />a repetitive cycle in which the period of illumination is either the same as or less <br />than the period of non-illumination. For the purposes of this Section, flashing will <br />not be defined as occurring if the cyclical period between on-off phases of <br />illumination exceeds four (4) seconds. <br />1.03. Section 1008.01 prohibits signs in all zoning districts of the City that are located, <br />designed or maintained in a manner which are likely to cause confusion or interfere with the safety <br />of motorists, cyclists, pedestrians and other users of public streets and rights of way and visibility of <br />traffic signs, traffic control devices, crossroads, driveways or crosswalks; <br />1.04. Section 1008.12, subdivision 1, of the Mounds View City Code prohibits flashing <br />signs, except those that provide public services information including time and temperature per <br />• Section 1008.02; <br />306301v1 SJRMU125-ll 1 <br />