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I PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING <br /> 2 DECEMBER 21, 1993 <br /> •3 PAGE 5 <br /> 4 <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Assistant Bellefuil indicated to the Commission that the <br /> 7 City does not have an ordinance addressing outside storage <br /> 8 and sales . She is proposing that the Planning Commission <br /> 9 recommend that staff research and develop an outside storage <br /> 10 and sales ordinance. The ordinance would require a special <br /> 11 use permit by businesses if they wish to store or sell items <br /> 12 outside of their building. <br /> 13 <br /> 14 Chair Faust felt there should be two separate ordinances <br /> 15 made one to address outside sales and one for outside <br /> 16 storage. <br /> 17 <br /> 18 C. Slide Presentation of Permanent Ground Signs. <br /> 19 <br /> 20 Assistant Bellefuil presented a slide show of various ground <br /> 21 signs in St . Anthony. She reviewed with the Commission that <br /> 22 grounds signs should not be visible underneath and should <br /> 23 only be a maximum of five feet high and if only one side is <br /> showing, that should only be a maximum of 20 square feet and <br /> 5 if two sides are showing, that should only be a maximum of <br /> 26, 32 square feet . There is also an additional landscape <br /> 27. provision where a sign can have up to an extra three feet in <br /> 28 height or an extra 12 square feet of sign surface area. <br /> 29 Each building is allowed to have one ground sign and one <br /> 30 wall sign. <br /> 31 <br /> 32 Only five of the nineteen surveyed signs were in accordance <br /> 33 with the sign ordinance . Conforming signs included Village <br /> 34 Townhomes, William Adams, Advanced Web Tech, St . Charles, <br /> 35 and GoodYear. Nonconforming signs included the High School, <br /> 36 Middle School, Medtronics, Leslie Paper, Anthony Place, <br /> 37 Winston Co. , Building Fasteners, Autumn Woods, Lowry Grove, <br /> 38 St . Anthony Court, Pizza Hut, Hardees, Bakers Square, and <br /> 39 TCF. <br /> 40 <br /> 41 The Commission discussed the possibility of having <br /> 42 categories to define the sign sizes such as commercial and <br /> 43 industrial businesses versus residential and elimination of <br /> 44 the bonus and make landscaping a requirement to the sign. <br /> 05 The City Manager indicated- he would like to have a clear, <br /> 6 easy to understand ordinance that can easily be interpreted. <br /> 47 <br />