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Item # 4 <br />City of Mounds View <br />Planning Commission <br />Report <br />Meeting Date: Ma�ch 1 S, 2000 <br />Trtle: <br />PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION 610-00, A RESOLUTION <br />RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF AN INTERIM USE PERMIT FOR TWO BILLBOARDS ON <br />SYSCO PROPERTY. <br />Introductaon: <br />DeLite Outdoor Advertising, representing the property owner Sysco Minnesota, has applied for an <br />Interim Use Permit to install two billboards on Sysco property fronting State Highway 10. <br />Background: <br />On Deceinber 13th, 1999, the City Council adopted Ordinance 644, which amended the City Code to <br />allow outdoor advertising signs (billboards) as a conditional use (to be further amended as "Tnterim <br />Uses") on properties adjacent to and north of State Highway 10 (formerly known as <br />S.T. H. 118.) <br />The ordinance set forth siting requirements, which are generally as follows: <br />• Billboards shall be located at least 250 feet from a residentially zoned property. <br />• Minimum spacing shall be 1,000 feet. <br />• Maximum sign area shall be 700 square feet per side. <br />• Maximum height is 35 feet. <br />This application has been referenced by the Planning Commission at the February 16 and March 1, <br />2000 meetings in the context of how it would relate to the City's own interim use permit application <br />for billboards on Bridges Golf Course property. <br />Dascussaon: <br />The two billboards proposed for the Sysco property are to be constructed of steel and be of a mono- <br />pole double-faced "V"-shaped design. The Planning Commission has expressed a significant <br />concern and displeasure regarding this type of typical billboard design and the fact that it would be <br />aesthetically inconsistent with the billboards to be constructed on the adjacent Bridges Golf Course <br />property. Because billboards are conditionally allowed as interim uses, the City does have the <br />ability to impose reasonable design requirements with the granting of the permit. <br />In addition to the siting criteria, which is addressed later in this report, Ordinance 644 requires that <br />the requested interim use permit be reviewed in the context of the adverse effects criteria in <br />