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SOUNDS VIEW <br />xv of Mounds view Staff <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Sign Code Amendment Discussion <br />Item No: 01 <br />Meeting Date: November 4, 2013 <br />Type of Business: Worksession <br />Administrator Review: <br />The corridor is the City Council's priority this year and the Planning Commission has been asked <br />to review the Zoning Code in order to better promote and accommodate development along <br />County Road 10. The Planning Commission has started by discussing general development <br />ideas to make the Corridor look better. One of those ideas was changing the style and height <br />allowances of the signage that is along the Corridor to only allow monument style signs, and to <br />reduce the setback amount. <br />The Commission discussed sign code changes and proposed a few changes, some that would <br />affect signs for the entire City, and others that are specific to properties along the Corridor. The <br />Commission recommends lowering the height limits in the Business, Industrial and CRP <br />(Conservancy, Recreation & Preservation) zoning districts from 20 feet or 35 feet down to 16 <br />feet, and requiring some type of masonry materials (brick, stone, stucco) for all signs throughout <br />the City. The other suggestions are reducing the minimum setback amount and sight triangle <br />amount from property lines that are adjacent to the County Road 10 corridor. Since there is <br />already a lot of excess right-of-way space between the street pavement and the front property <br />lines, the Commission felt it would not cause problems to allow signs to move closer to County <br />Road 10. The side setback requirements are not changing. <br />The Commission reviewed photos of several existing business signs in the City and felt that <br />many were so tall, and even with the large County Road 10 right-of-way and 50mph speed limit, <br />there is no real need for signs to be 20+ feet tall. The Commission based their decision of a 16 <br />foot height limit by comparing the sign heights that currently exist in the City and deciding on an <br />amount that is in the middle of the height ranges. The photos of the signs and their dimensions <br />are included in this report. <br />The Commission has approved Resolution 993-13 with the discussed amendments. The <br />proposed changes are underlined and highlighted in blue, and deleted language is stricken and <br />highlighted in red. There already is language for nonconforming signs: signs that don't meet the <br />current City Code, but met the code requirements when they were installed. <br />Recommendation <br />Review and discuss the attached resolution with the proposed sign code amendments. <br />Sincerely, <br />Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Attachments: <br />1. Photos of existing signs in the City <br />2. Existing language in Chapter 1008.13 <br />for nonconforming signs <br />3. Resolution 993-13 <br />
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