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view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic -control device or any <br />railroad sign or signal. <br />b. All off -premise signs. <br />c. Signs painted, attached or in any other manner affixed to trees, rocks, or similar natural <br />surfaces, or attached to public utility poles, bridges, towers, or similar public structures. <br />d. Portable signs. <br />e. Changeable copy signs. <br />570.27. Setbacks. <br />Subd. 1. Yards. Signs shall conform to building yard regulations for the zoning district in which <br />the signs are located except as otherwise specified in this section. <br />B-1 B-2 B-3 B-3 Residential <br />Abutting <br />County Road <br />Front Yard 10' 1 ' 1 ' 10' 5' <br />Side Yard 5' 0' 0' 5' 5' <br />Rear Yard 5' 5' 10' 10' 5' <br />I-1 I-2 <br />Front Yard 10' 10' <br />Side Yard 10' 10' <br />Rear Yard 10' 10' <br />Rear Yard - abutting R District 20' 20' <br />570.29. Area. <br />The area within the frame shall be used to calculate the square footage except that the width of a <br />frame exceeding 12 inches shall constitute sign face, and if such letters or graphics be mounted <br />directly on a wall or fascia or in such way as to be without a frame the dimensions for calculating <br />the square footage shall be the area extending six inches beyond the periphery formed around <br />such letters or graphics in a plane figure bounded by straight lines connecting the outermost <br />points thereof. Each surface utilized to display a message or to attract attention shall be <br />measured as a separate sign and shall be calculated in the overall square footage. Symbols, flags, <br />pictures, wording, figures or other forms of graphics painted on or attached to windows, walls, <br />awnings, free-standing structures, suspended by balloons, or kites or on persons, animals, or <br />vehicles are considered a sign and are included in calculating the overall square footage. <br />570.31. Canopies, marquees and fixed awnings. <br />10 <br />