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Item No: 6A Meeting Date: 3-04-09 Type of Business: Action Administrator Review: of Mounds View Staff To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Ken Roberts, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Proposed Code Amendment — Conditional Uses Date of Report: February 23, 2009 Introduction: City staff has prepared an update to the City code. This update is necessary to accommodate dynamic display signs as conditional uses and to help ensure that the ordinance meets current legal standards. Background: On January 12, 2009, the City Council adopted Ordinance 816. This ordinance amended Chapter 1008 of the City Code about signs. This ordinance amendment included updated City Code language about dynamic display signs, including the minimum display times and the locations where such signs might be located. Discussion: The code amendment adopted by the City Council included several changes to the sign code, including adding language about dynamic display signs. Specifically, Subd. 9 (d) of Chapter 1008.10 of the new Code reads: d. The City allows dynamic display signs on on-site freestanding or ground signs subject to Chapter 1008.10 Subd. 1 (Ground Signs) of the city code, the above-mentioned standards for all dynamic display signs, and subject to the following additional conditions: (I) The owners or operators of such signs shall not use messages, content or images that flash or blink. (2) The images or messages on such signs shall not include any video images or content. (3) Such signs may be located only in the Limited Business (B-2), Highway Business (B-3), Regional Business (B-4) or Commercial Planned Unit Developments (PUD's) zoning districts. (4) Such signs may be located on the sites of schools, churches, places of worship or other institutional land uses, subject to the following additional conditions: ( City Council approval of a conditional use permit (CUP) as outlined in Section 1106.04 and Section 1125.01, Subd. 3. of the City Code.