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Mounds View City Council May 8, 2006 Regular Meeting Page 7 Mr. Glidden stated that adding billboards to County Road 10 is not taking any steps to 1 beautifying the area. He encouraged the City to not place billboards on County Road 10. He 2 stated there may be other locations owned by the City, County or State that could be possible 3 locations for billboards. He suggested the City should pursue location billboards in those kinds 4 of locations because the revenue generated from the placement of billboards could go to the City, 5 County or State, as opposed to a private property owner. He stated this would help to lower tax 6 burdens for everyone. 7 8 Mayor Marty asked if Staff has talked to the County or State about possible locations of 9 billboards. Director Ericson reported that both Ramsey County and MnDOT do not support 10 billboards on their properties, but Clear Channel is free to approach both entities. 11 12 Dan Hall, 2200 Highway 10, stated that a lot of people are not remembering that if a good faith 13 effort is not made by the City Council to help Clear Channel find locations for the billboards, 14 then Medtronic is not going to pay for the billboard relocation. He stated Clear Channel has 15 indicated that there are no locations on Old Highway 8 that will work. He stated that by blocking 16 the business district, the City is not making a good faith effort. He recalled the memorandum 17 that was received from Medtronic that they did not think it was a good faith effort in not allowing 18 billboards below the intersection of Woodale Drive. He stated he believes Clear Channel would 19 have already exhausted every possibility of approaching the County or State to put billboards up 20 before billboards were constructed on the golf course. He stated three possible signs times 21 $850,000 per sign is a lot of money to have to offset. 22 23 Mayor Marty stated that Clear Channel expended quite a bit of money for the billboard permits at 24 the golf course area. He stated the City needed to rezone the area. He wondered if Clear 25 Channel has approached MnDOT or Ramsey County. 26 27 Director Ericson wondered what properties the County or MnDOT would own that would be 28 possibilities. Mayor Marty pointed out the locations on the map. 29 30 Director Ericson stated that one of the properties is right-of-way, and it would be like putting up 31 a sign in the middle of Highway 10. He stated that Clear Channel can approach MnDOT about 32 the property. He noted there can be no signs on County parkland in terms of Ramsey County. 33 He stated the other issue is there needs to be a 250 foot separation distance from residential 34 properties. Director Ericson stated MnDOT has not approved property that is not zoned 35 commercial or industrial property in the past. He stated if there are other areas on Highway 10 or 36 I-35W that are City or County owned, the City would support Clear Channel moving forward. 37 38 The Council had extensive discussion on whether to use the ordinance document as it was 39 prepared in the Council packet that excluded the amendments voted on at the last meeting, but 40 did include the change of the language relating to design guidelines, or to use the document with 41 the knowledge that there were amendments that were voted on at the last meeting but were not 42 included in the ordinance document in the Council packet. 43 44 Councilmember Gunn and City Administrator Ulrich reviewed the amendments that were voted 45