Agenda - Planning Commission - 06/05/2008

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ORDINANCE NO. 2007-21 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE SECTION 300.30 REGARDING DYNAMIC SIGNS The City of Minnetonka Ordains: Section 1. City code 9300.30, subd. 1 is amended as follows: 1. Purpose and Findings. The purpose and findings of the sign ordinance are as follows: a) Purpose: the sign ordinance is intended to establish a comprehensive and balanced system of sign control that accommodates the need for a welh..maintained, safe, and attractive community, and the need for effective communications including business identification. It is the intent of this section, to promote the health, safety, general welfare, aesthetics, and image of the community by regulating signs that are intended to communicate to the public, and to use signs which meet the city's goals by authorizing: 1) permanent signs which establish a high standard of aesthetics; 2) signs which are compatible with their surroundings; 3) signs which are designed, constructed, installed and maintained in a manner that does not adversely impact public safety or unduly distract motorists; 4) signs which are large enough to convey the intended message and to help citizens find their way to intended destinations; 5) signs that are proportioned to the scale of, and are architecturally compatible with, principal structures; 6) permanent signs which give preference to the on-premise owner or occupant; and . 7) temporary commercial signs and advertising displays which provide an opportunity for grand openings and occasional sales events while restricting sigAs which create continuous visual clutter and hazards at public right-of-way intersections. b) Findings: the city of Minnetonka finds it is necessary for the promotion and preservation of the public health, safety, welfare and aesthetics of the community that the construction, location, size and maintenance of signs be controlled. Further, the city The strickon language is deleted; the underlined language is inserted. 48