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ORDINANCE #22-19 CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 117 WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE ZONING SECTION OF THE CITY CODE OF RAMSEY,MINNESOTA. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SIGN CODE TO ALLOW OFF-PREMISE DIGITAL BILLBOARD SIGNS. The City 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. AMENDMENT TO CITY CODE SECTION 117, DIVISION 8 The current City Code Section 117, Division 8 is revised as follows to implement section regulating Off-Premise Digital Billboard Signs: Sec. 117-468.—Off-Premise Digital Billboard Signs (a)Findings,purpose, and intent. The city council finds it necessary for the promotion and preservation of the health, safety, welfare, and aesthetics of the community that the construction, location, size, conspicuity, brightness, legibility, operational characteristics, and maintenance of off-premises digital billboard signs be controlled. Off-premises digital billboard signs have a direct and substantial impact on traffic safety,pedestrian safety, community aesthetics and property values. If left uncontrolled, off-premises digital billboard signs, designed to catch the eye of persons in their vicinity and hold it for extended periods of time, including video display signs, constitute a serious traffic safety threat. The city council intends by this subsection to establish a legal framework for off-premises digital billboard sign regulation in the city to facilitate an easy and agreeable communication between people while protecting and promoting the public health, safety, welfare and aesthetics of the community. It is not the purpose or intent of this subsection to prefer or favor commercial messages or speech over noncommercial messages or speech or to discriminate between types of noncommercial speech or the viewpoints represented therein. Rather,the purpose of the off-premises digital billboard sign regulations promulgated in this subsection is: (1) To eliminate potential hazards to motorists and pedestrians using the public streets, sidewalks, and rights of way; (2) To safeguard and enhance property values; (3) To control nuisances;