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Item No. Staff Report No. Meeting Date: January 24, 2000 Type of Business: C.B. WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Rick Jopke, Community Development Director Title/Subject: Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 637, An Ordinance Amending Section 1008 of the Mounds View Municipal Code to Set Signage Standards in the PF (Public Facilities) and CRP (Conservancy, Recreational, and Preservation) Zoning Districts Date of Report: January 20, 2000 BACKGROUND The current code does not list any permitted signage or standards in either of these districts. The draft ordinance allows signs consistent with neighborhood business districts and with the pedestal sign requirements in Section 1008.01 Subdivision 6 in the PF and CRP districts. Signage allowed would include 100 square feet of signs on the building and a 340 square foot pedestal sign for each street frontage. If the site has more than 100 feet of frontage an additional 100 square foot pedestal sign would be allowed. Any pedestal sign which is within 100 feet of a single family residence cannot exceed 40 square feet, however. This is open for discussion. The amount of signage allowed may be more than necessary. The existing signage at parks in a neighborhood setting appears to range from 18 to 20 square feet total sign area while the main City Hall sign is approximately 128 square feet in area. The total freestanding signage at the Community Center appears to be approximately 90 square feet. Signage at the golf course has been at times as much as 130 square feet. The City Council held a public hearing and gave first reading approval on September 13, 1999 to Ordinance No. 637, an ordinance amendment to allow signs in the PF Public Facilities and CRP Conservancy, Recreational and Preservation zoning districts. Second reading has been delayed pending completion of the process of considering Ordinance No. 644 that was the ordinance to allow billboards in certain areas of the City. There was concern that language in ordinance 637 may be inconsistent with language in Ordinance 644. The double underlined language in Ordinance No. 637 has been added since the first reading of the ordinance to remove this inconsistency.