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Item No. /Q E Staff Report No. Meeting Date: 11/22/99 Type of Business: CB WK: Work Session;PH:Public Hearing; CA:Consent Agenda;CB:Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mayor and City Council Members From: Rick Jopke, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Ordinance No. 644 an Ordinance Amendment to Allow Billboards by Conditional Use Permit. Date of Report: November 18, 1999 Background: The City Council has asked that the City staff and the Planning Commission review the issue of whether the City should allow billboards on the golf course and nearby city-owned property as a way to provide additional revenue for the golf course and city. Community Development Department staff then determined that current city codes did not permit any signage in CRP and PF zoning districts and new billboards are not allowed in any zoning district in Mounds View. The City Council then directed staff and the Planning Commission to prepare and consider ordinance amendments to allow signage in CRP and PF zoning districts to clean up nonconforming existing signs within those districts and to allow billboards. The Planning Commission recommended and the City Council has given first reading approval to Ordinance No. 637. Ordinance No. 637 allows and sets standards for signs in the CRP and PF zoning districts. Second reading and adoption of this ordinance has been delayed based on concerns expressed by the City Attorney that language in this ordinance may be inconsistent with an ordinance allowing billboards because it restricts signs to those that relate to the business or activity occurring on the site. Community Development Department staff has drafted on ordinance amendment(Ordinance No. 644)that would allow billboards on city-owned property along 118 and 35W by conditional use permit. In developing this proposed ordinance, staff incorporated input from the billboard industry. The ordinance also sets size, setback,height and other standards that billboards must meet.As part of the review of this ordinance the City Attorney was asked to provide an opinion on whether there were deed restrictions on the golf course property which would prohibit billboards,whether there are any spot zoning issues presented by the proposed ordinance,and state requirements.A copy of the City Attorney's opinion issued is attached. The City Attorney has subsequently advised staff that the City cannot restrict billboards to city-owned property only and that the state restricts permit issuance to commercially and industrially zoned properties. The Planning Commission has considered the draft ordinance to allow billboards and has passed the attached Resolution No. 597-99 recommending City Council denial of the proposed ordinance. This