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Subd. 5 Advertising Signs <br /> <br />Advertising signs shall only be allowed in the B-3 Highway Business District subject to the <br />following requirements: <br /> <br />Off-premise advertising signs are prohibited within 100 feet of the intersection of the <br />Highway right-of-way and any other right-of-way or driveway. <br /> <br />Advertising signs are prohibited within 1200 feet of another advertising sign on the same <br />side of the right-of-way. <br /> <br />Ail advertising signs shall be erected with a single pole or mono-pole structural standard <br />and shall have underground wiring. <br /> <br />The base of any advertising sign must be landscaped with at least grass and must be <br />properly maintained. <br /> <br />Advertising signs shall not exceed 300 square feet in area nor 25 feet in height as measured <br />perpendicularly from the height of the highest point of the sign structure to the grade level <br />directly below the sign. The existing grade may not be altered for the purpose of increasing <br />sign height. <br /> <br />fo <br /> <br />Advertising signs shall be considered a principal use of the property. Advertising signs <br />must be removed when the parcel upon which they are situated is devoted to another <br />principal use. <br /> <br />go <br /> <br />The City shall perform a yearly inspection of the advertising devices to ensure compliance <br />of said advertising structure with the provisions of this section and other provisions of this <br />Ordinance. The fee for said inspection shall be set by the Ramsey City Council by <br />resolution. <br /> <br />9.1.2.09 INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS WAREHOUSE TYPE DISTRICTS <br /> <br />a) <br /> <br />Wall, Canopy or Marquee Sign. There shall not be more than one (1) wall sign for each <br />principal building except where the building abuts two or more streets, additional such <br />signs, one (1) oriented to each abutting street, shall be permitted. The gross surface area of <br />a wall sign shall not exceed fifteen (15) percent of the area of the building wall, including <br />doors and windows, to which the sign is to be affixed. The gross surface area of a wall <br />sign may be increased by ten (10) percent if such wall sign: <br /> <br />l) <br /> <br />consists only of individual, outlined alphabetic, numeric, and/or sumbolic <br />characters without backgound except provided by the building surface to which the <br />sign is to be affixed; and <br /> <br />2) <br /> <br />any illumination, if any, is achieved through shielded illumination, shielded <br />silhouette lighting, or shielded spot lighting but not any lighting where the light <br />source is visible or exposed on the face or sides of the characters. <br /> <br />Sign Ord. Rev. April 11, 1991 <br /> Page 13 of 20 <br /> <br /> <br />