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• • issued for a billboard shall automatically expire when the lease agreement for the billboard expires. Such CUP shall be null -and -void if the applicant fails to obtain any required permit from the State of Minnesota. b. LOCATION: The billboard must be located along or north of 118 and must be located on City -owned property. The applicant must have an approved lease agreement with the City. The billboard shall be oriented towards 118 and/or I35W. Billboards must be located at least 250 feet from residentially zoned property. Billboards may be located adjacent to the right-of-way of a street or highway, but no part thereof shall extend over such right-of-way. c. MINIMUM SPACING: Billboards must be at least 1500 feet apart. Spacing between signs shall be measured by projecting the nearest points of the signs to the property line of the right-of-way from which they are intended to be read and measuring the distance in a straight line between the projected points. Required spacing shall apply only to billboards on the same side of the same roadway. d. MAXIMUM SIGN AREA: The maximum gross surface display area of the sign cannot exceed 700 square feet per side except that any rectangular billboard may contain temporary extensions, cutouts, or top lettering which occupy a total area not in excess of twenty-five (25) percent of the area of the basic billboard and form an integral part of the design thereof No such temporary extension, cut out, or top lettering may project more than six (6) feet from the top, eighteen (18) inches from either side or fifteen (15) inches from the bottom of the basic rectangular advertising message. The area of an extension, cutout, or top lettering shall be deemed to be the area of the smallest rectangle into which such extension, cutout. or top lettering will fit. e. ORIENTATION OF SIGN FACES: Billboards may have no more than two (2) sign faces. Sign faces must be back-to-back with sign faces parallel or angled. All billboards with their faces back-to-back and parallel shall have no greater distance than eight (8) feet between the faces. All billboards with faces at an angle shall have no greater angle than thirty-five (35) degrees. • f MAXIMUM SIGN HEIGHT: The maximum allowable height of billboards shall be thirty-five (35) feet. The height shall be measured from the grade at the base of the sign or from the surface of the roadway whichever is higher. g. OBSTRUCTION: No billboard may be located in such a manner as to obscure or otherwise interfere with the effectiveness of an official traffic sign, signal, or device, or obstruct or interfere with a driver's view of approaching, merging. or intersecting traffic. Any billboard legally existing on the effective date of this ordinance may continue to be maintained in its present form and size but not expanded. This does not preclude the periodic change of the message or advertisement presented on the billboard. Any billboard destroyed by an act of God may be rebuilt within thirty (30) days if the