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ORDINANCE NO. 818 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW RAMSEY COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1106.04 OF THE MOUNDS VIEW CITY CODE BY ADDING LANGUAGE TO ALLOW DYNAMIC DISPLAY SIGNS BY CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT WHEREAS, the Mounds View City Council directed City staff to prepare an amendment to the City Code to include regulations for dynamic display signs; and WHEREAS, on January 7, 2008, the Mounds View City Council adopted Ordinance 801 that amended Chapter 1008 of the City Code about the City requirements for signs and billboards; and WHEREAS, Ordinance 801 included a prohibition for dynamic displays and repealed the ordinance that had established cone-year moratorium on electronic and video display signs or billboards in Mounds View; and WHEREAS, on January 12, 2009, the Mounds View City Council adopted Ordinance 816 that established city standards and regulations for signs in the City including Dynamic Display Signs; and WHEREAS, Ordinance 816 included a section that requires City approval of a conditional use permit for dynamic display signs at schools, churches, places of worship or other institutional land uses; and WHEREAS, the City needs to update its regulations about conditional use permits to have all sections of the City Code consistent and to better accommodate dynamic display signs in certain locations in Mounds View by conditional use permit; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it is in the public interest to establish requirements for the installation and operation of dynamic display signs, including requirements about the location of dynamic display signs; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that dynamic displays should be allowed on billboards and on off and on-site signs but only with significant controls to minimize their proliferation and to lessen their potential threats to public health, safety and welfare and to the image and aesthetics of the City; and WHEREAS, the Mounds View Planning Commission discussed this matter on March 4, 2009 and they concurred that an amendment to the City Code about conditional use permits and dynamic display signs is warranted and justified; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mounds View City Council has decided that it is in the public interest to amend the City Code about conditional use permits to allow dynamic display signs in certain locations.