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• Section 430 • • Page 9 Section 430 Subd. 5• SHOPPING CENTERS COMPREHENSIVE SIGN PLAN: a comprehensive plan Page 10 shall be provided for the whole of a shopping center development. Such a plan, which shall include the location, size, height, L color, lighting, and orientation of all signs, submitted for preliminary plan approval. Provided that such a comprehensive 3• Landscaping shall consist of shrubs, plants, rocks or plan is presented, exceptions to the regulations of other decorative materials located around the pedestal. this ordinance may be permitted- if the sign areas and densities for the plan as a whole are in conformity with the intent of this e. Design and Location: ordinance and if such exception results in an improved relation- ship between the various parts of the plan as determined by the City Council. Comprehensive Sign Plans shall be reviewed by the 1. Signs shall maximize the use of natural materials in City Planning Commission who shall forward a recommendation to construction and should conform to the material design of the principal structure. the City Council on the appropriateness of the proposed plan. Subd. 6. GROUND SIGNS: are permitted in Ll districts,_subject to the. 2. Signs shall be located at least 5 feet from any street or other easement. following: a. A permit is applied for in accordance with Section 430:40 3• To qualify for a permit, the pedestal width of a ground sign must be at least equal to the sign width. of this ordinance. 4. The principal structure of a parcel of land shall be : b. Height allowed one ground sign, regardless of the number of 1. The sign does not exceed 5 feet in height, except as per- tenants in the structure. mitted under Subd. 6d of this Section. Subd. 7. WALL SIGNS: 2. The berming of a sign location shall be considered in the height of a sign if the berm is more than 3 feet a. The n surface area of a wall sign shall not exceed 15% in height. of the area of the wall to which it is applied. 3. For every foot a sign is less than the maximum height Subd. 8. DISTRICT SCHEDULES: signs shall be permitted as set forth in the permitted, there shall be allowed an additional 4 square following Subdivions a to c inclusive, which are hereby made and feet of sign surface area, up to a total of 12 additional I declared part of this ordinance. square feet. I a. The following signs are permitted in a residential district: c. Surface Area: I 1. One identification sign per dwelling unit, which . sign shall not exceed a sign surface area of 2 square feet 1. Signs having one copy surface may have up to 20 square per surface and shall have no more than 2 sign surfaces feet of surface area, plus any bonus under Subd. 6b3 of (for a total of 4 square feet), and one address sign on this Section. the curb in front of each dwelling unit or on a freestanding mailbox. 2. Signs having two or more copy surfaces may have up to 32 square feet for all surfaces, plus any bonus under 2. Each multiple dwelling complex shall be allowed one free- Subd. 6b3 of this Section. standing sign identifying the complex. The sign shall not exceed 50 square feet in sign surface area; the sign d. Landscaping: structure including the sign surface area, shall not exceed 150 square feet in area; and the highest point of I. Signs which are landscaped in accordance with this ordin- the sign shall not be more than 10 feet above ground level. ante, shall be entitled to a height bonus of 3 feet (total maximum height of 8 feet). ; 3. Each church located within the corporate limits of this City, subject to approval of size, location and type by the 2. The minimum required landscape area, excluding the pedestal area to qualify for the height bonus, shall be at least I 1.5 times the sign surface area. i ti ;