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r <br /> -2- <br /> Terrace <br /> 2-Terrace and Lowry Avenue N. E. on November 19th, 1968. <br /> Motion carried. <br /> Mr. Gordon Hedlund presented a town house development for his property on Silver <br /> Lake Road, north of 39th Avenue N. E. The Council discussed the density of 36 <br /> units at length. The Council indicated it would be amenable to a density <br /> development of 28 units. Mr. Hedlund stated that it was not economical to develop <br /> a density less than 36 units. Councilman Emond moved and seconded by Mayor O'Condw <br /> that the request to develop a 36 unit town house complex on the Hedlund property <br /> be denied. <br /> Voting on the motion: <br /> Aye: O'Connor, Emond, Springer. <br /> May: Dougherty, Crouse. <br /> Motion carried. <br /> lMotion by Councilman Crouse and seconded by Councilman Dougherty that the request <br /> of St. Anthony Firestone to re-erect a pylon sign be denied as not conforming to <br /> the Sign Ordinance. <br /> • Voting on the motion: <br /> Aye: Springer, Dougherty, Crouse. <br /> Nay: O'Connor, Emond. <br /> MoMotion carried. <br /> Cdimeiiman Crouse asked that an article appearing in the Minneapolis Star on <br /> PPe n9 P <br /> October 180 1968 be made a part of the minutesi The article is as follows,: <br /> VILLAGE CAN PROTECT BEAUTY <br /> Beautification got a big boost lest week when the Minnesota Supeeme• Court upheld <br /> a Minnetonka village ordinance banning billboards in residential areas. The de- <br /> cision rejected the argument that a municipality's police power may not be used to <br /> protect esthetic values. <br /> The Minnetonka ordinance provides that existing signt iri residential zones must be <br /> removed within three years, and also sets restrictions as to height, spacing and <br /> setback from the right-of-way for legal signs in business and industrial zones'. <br /> More than a hundred communities in the state have similar ordinances governing <br /> billboards or junkyards or both and the key provision is the one regarding amor- <br /> tization. In 1951 the League of Minnesota Municipalities prepared ,a model zoning <br /> ordinance and suggested that owners of signs or junkyards could be given a dead- <br /> line of three years or so. <br /> The recent decision confirms that view and presumably sets up guidelines for the <br /> lower courts, where in at least a couple of instances junkyard and billboard <br /> proprietors are resisting enforcement of )oval ordinances. <br /> `1 <br />