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Clear Channel IUP Report June 21, 2006 Page 3 In addition to the adverse effects criteria, the City is to also consider the General Conditional Use Permit criteria found in Section 1125.01 Subd. 3 as part of the consideration: (1) The use will not create an excessive burden on existing parks, schools, streets and other public facilities and utilities that serve or are proposed to serve the area. The Installation of a billboard will not create or cause a burden to public facilities. (2) The use will be sufficiently compatible or separated by distance or screening from adjacent residentially zoned or used land so that existing homes will not be depreciated in value and there will be no deterrence to development of vacant land. It is believed that the billboard would not be visible from any residentially zoned property in the City and that the installation of the billboard would not have a detrimental effect on the development of vacant land in the area. (3) The structure and site shall have an appearance that will not have an adverse effect upon adjacent residential properties. There are no residential properties adjacent to the Mermaid and as such this requirement does not necessarily apply. (4) The use, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, is reasonably related to the overall needs of the City and to the existing land use. It is assumed that the need for the proposed billboards is reasonably related to the economic situation of the property owner and is reasonably related to the need to relocate four billboards from the former golf course property.. (5) The use is consistent with the purposes of the Zoning Code and the purposes of the zoning district in which the applicant intends to locate the proposed use. With the adoption of Ordinance 769, the proposed billboard is consistent with the purposes of the City Code and the purposes of the zoning district in which they are to be located. (6) The use is not in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan of the City. The Comprehensive Plan does not contemplate or address the issue of billboards. (7) The use will not cause traffic hazards or congestion. Studies commissioned by highway safety and transportation groups and federal agencies find no correlation between billboards and accidents. Even so, it cannot be disputed that the main premise of a billboard is to attract or divert a driver’s attention, if only for a brief moment. Diverting one’s attention from the act of driving could result in an accident. In that respect however, a billboard is no different than any thing else within a driver’s field of vision.