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ORDINANCE #23-18 CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY, MINNESOTA, AMENDING CHAPTER 105 BUILDING AND BUILDING REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO ADDRESS NUMBERS The City Council of Ramsey ordains: SECTION 1. AUTHORITY This ordinance is adopted pursuant to and under the authority of the City Charter of the City of Ramsey. SECTION 2. AMENDMENTS Chapter 105 — Buildings and Building Regulations, Article L In General is amended to add the following (underline text): Sec. 105-2. — Address sign 1 regulations. (a) Definitions. (L)Address sign. Buildings shall have approved address numbers placed in a position to be plainly legible and visible from the street or road fronting the property. These address numbers shall be limited to identification numbers only, written in Arabic numerical form. Numbers shall not be spelled out. (2.)Front of the building. The side of the building facing the street to which the building is addressed. (b) Auxiliaa buildinzs exempted. All auxiliary buildings within a lot having a building with an assigned number and buildings such as garages, barns and buildings, the likes thereof are not affected by this .'Potion (c) General regulations. It shall be the duty of the owner, lessor, or occupant of every house, industrial commercial, or other building, to have proper house or building numbers by affixing such numbers to the primary structure. (L)Specifications. The address sign numbers shall conform to the size requirements listed as follows. a. The building number shall be clearly displace, of a color in contrast with the color of the building to which it is attached, in such a manner that the number may be easily and clearly seen and read from the public street. b. Numbers shall be displayed with a minimum height of four inches (4") for residential ctnwfiirPc c. Multi -family residential buildings shall disblav numbers with a minimum of twelve inches (12") in height. d. On commercial structures, numbers shall be displayed with a minimum height of twelve inches e. On multi -tenant commercial structures, rear entry access doors must display the tenant business name and unit number, address of the commercial space, or indicate access doors to mechanical, electrical or sprinkler rooms. The letters and numbers shall be a minimum four inches (4") in height. f. Buildings, which have a range of addresses for one building, shall display the range of numbers or addresses from lowest to highest. g. Within multi -family residential dwelling buildings or commercial buildings with common entrances containing five units or more whether the units are rental or individually owned