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<br />Item No: 5C <br />Meeting Date: July 5, 2006 <br />Type of Business: PC Action <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: James Ericson, Community Development Director <br />Item Title/Subject: Consideration of an Interim Use Permit and a Variance <br />for a Billboard at 5201 Program Avenue <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />Consistent with the recently adopted Ordinance 769, Clear Channel Outdoor has submitted a <br />request for an Interim Use Permit (IUP) to site a billboard at the southwest corner of Program <br />Avenue and Woodale Drive (Building “A” site) which gains visibility from Interstate 35W. In <br />addition to the IUP application, Clear Channel has also requested approval of a variance to <br />reduce the setback of the billboard from fifteen (15) feet to five (5) feet. The basis of the <br />variance request is to avoid siting the billboard within the existing stormwater pond which <br />would require reconfiguration of the pond and pond easement, actions opposed by the <br />property owner RREEF American REIT II. (REEFF, a division of Deutsche Bank Group, is <br />an international Real Estate Investment Trust with offices worldwide.) <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />The City of Mounds View and Clear Channel entered into an agreement in 2005 in which <br />Clear Channel agreed to relocate four of its billboards from the former golf course site on <br />Highway 10 to make way for the Medtronic development. Clear Channel was provided two <br />years in which to find suitable locations elsewhere in the City to site the billboards. The <br />City’s role was to amend its codes and regulations to allow reasonable opportunity for the <br />signs to be relocated in elsewhere in the community. On May 8th of this year, after multiple <br />meetings held by the City Council, Ordinance 769 was adopted which expanded the <br />locations for billboards to properly zoned parcels (B2, B3, I1, PUD and CRP) along Highway <br />10, Interstate 35W, Old Highway 8 and the south side of County Road 10 south of the <br />Woodale Drive intersection. In addition to identifying locations, the ordinance also amended <br />the spacing and height requirements for billboards. The 250 foot setback from residential <br />land uses remained unchanged. The relocated billboards and the two billboards remaining <br />at the former golf course site were provided 30 year lease rights. <br /> <br />The following table identifies the various code requirements pertaining to billboards and <br />whether the requirements are satisfied with this request. <br /> <br /> Required Proposed Satisfied? <br />Minimum Spacing 500 Feet 850 Feet Yes <br />Maximum Height 45 Feet 45 Feet Yes <br />Setback from Residential 250 Feet 820 Feet Yes <br />Property Line Setback 15 Feet 5 Feet * No <br />Maximum Sign Area 700 Sq. Feet 700 Sq. Feet Yes <br />Appropriate Location US 10, 35W, Old Hwy 8 or <br />CR10 <br />Program Ave Yes <br />Appropriate Zoning B2, B3, I1, PUD, CRP PUD Yes <br /> <br />* Clear Channel has applied for a variance to allow for the 5-foot setback.