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<br />MOUNDS VIEW PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />RESOLUTION NO. 881-07
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<br />CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW
<br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY
<br />STATE OF MINNESOTA
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<br />RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF AN AMENDMENT TO
<br />CHAPTER 1008 OF THE MOUNDS VIEW CITY CODE REGARDING
<br />REQUIREMENTS FOR SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
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<br />WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance 784 on February 12, 2007 which
<br />authorized a one-year moratorium on the installation, creation, construction, replacement,
<br />modification or improvement of static or changing electronic, digital, video, display signs or
<br />billboards and flashing motion, animated, changeable copy and illuminated signs in all
<br />zoning districts; and,
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<br />WHEREAS, Ordinance 784 indicates that the City will undertake a study regarding
<br />electronic, digital, and video display signs, billboards, billboard networks, flashing, motion,
<br />animated, changeable copy and illuminated signs and that the scope of the study should
<br />include review of regional and national studies, local research, ordinances in other
<br />jurisdictions, review of relevant studies and a legal analysis of applicable case law, sign
<br />display operational literature, existing electronic signs and other factual and quantifiable
<br />information; and,
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<br />WHEREAS, upon completion of the study, the matter is to be considered by the
<br />Planning Commission for its review and recommendation to the City Council.
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<br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the study regarding electronic, digital,
<br />and video display signs, billboards, billboard networks, flashing, motion, animated,
<br />changeable copy and illuminated signs is complete and the Mounds View Planning
<br />Commission has reviewed the following materials comprising the study:
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<br />1. SRF Study regarding Dynamic Signage – June 2007
<br />2. City of Minnetonka Staff Report – May 2007
<br />3. Regulating Dynamic Signage, LMC Memo – 2007
<br />4. Minnetonka & Clear Channel Reach Tentative Agreement – May 15, 2007
<br />5. Clear Channel Sues Arden Hills – Oct 25, 2007
<br />6. Opinions Harden in Billboard Debate – Nov 20, 2007
<br />7. Electronic Billboards Raise Risks – Nov 30, 2007
<br />8. Billboard Deal Up In The Air – Dec 6, 2007
<br />9. Billboard Deal Pleases No One – Dec 13, 2007
<br />10. FHWA Report on Electronic Billboards – Sept 11, 2001
<br />11. FHWA Memo on Changeable Message Signs – Sept 2007
<br />12. Outdoor Advertising Assn of America - Regulating Digital Billboards (undated)
<br />13. Ordinance 881
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