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59 <br />conforming signs or signs which have required a conditional use permit or a variance <br />shall also be subject to the definition of abandoned sign. <br />Subd. 2. Animated Sign. A sign which includes action or motion. <br />Subd. 3. Awning. A roof -like cover, often offabric, plastic, metal or glass designed and <br />intended for protection from the weather or as a decorative embellishment, and which <br />projects front a wall or roof of a structure primarily over a window, walk, or the like. <br />Any part of an awning which also projects over a door shall be counted as an awning. <br />Subd. 4. Awning Sign. A building sign or graphic printed on or in some fashion <br />attached directly to the awning material. <br />Subd. 5. Balloon Sign. A sign consisting of a bag made of lightweight material <br />supported by helium, hot, or pressurized air which is greater than twenty-four (24) inches <br />in diameter. <br />Subd. 6. Billboard. A sign which directs attention to a business, community service or <br />entertainment not exclusively related to the premises where such sign is located (See <br />Subd. 39 of this Section). <br />Subd. 7. Building. Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use <br />or occupancy. <br />Subd. 8. Building Sign. Any sign attached or supported by any structure used or <br />intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy. <br />Subd. 9. Business Frontage. The linear frontage of that portion of a building facing the <br />right-of-way and occupied by one separate business. <br />Subd. 10. Cabinet sign. Any wall sign that is not of channel or individually mounted <br />letter construction. <br />Subd. 11. CanoDY. A permanent roof structure attached to and supported by the <br />building. <br />Subd. 12. Canopy Simon. Any sign that is part of or attached to a canopy and is based on <br />business frontage. <br />Subd. 13. Changeable Copy Sign. A sign, or a portion thereof, with characters, letters, <br />or illustrations that can be changed or rearranged without altering the face or the <br />surface of the sign. Changeable copy signs do not include signs upon which characters, <br />letters or illustrations change or rearrange only once in a 24-hour period. <br />Subd. 14. Commercial Speech. Speech advertising a business profession commodity,_ <br />service or entertainment. <br />Subd. 15. Directional Sign. An on -premises sign designed to guide or direct pedestrian <br />or vehicular traffic and a surface area not greater than five (5) square feet. <br />