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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1849-91 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1991/02/251 ID ORDINANCE NO. 1849-91 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST. LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE RELATING TO ZONING BY AMENDING SECTION 14-185.08 (Table A) THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: Findings Sec. 1. The City Council has considered the advice and recommendation of the Planning Commission (Case No. 90-83-ZA). Sec. 2. The City Council hereby fords and determines as follows: a. Construction of Interstate Freeway I-394 and related construction on State Trunk Highway 100 has greatly altered the physical configuration of these highways. b. Alteration of the highway configurations has resulted in reduced visibility of certain properties abutting these highways to the road surface. c. It is in the City's interest to promote and protect the economic viability of businesses in the City by permitting businesses abutting the highways whose visibility from the highway has been impaired by the reconfiguration of these highways to have some signage visible from the road surface. d. It is in the City's interest not to allow signage indiscriminately, but rather in accordance with Comprehensive Plan Policies which seek to regulate the adverse impacts of excessive signage. e. The Council, therefore, finds it necessary to modify the sign portion of the Zoning Ordinance to permit an increase in sign height for those businesses actually affected by the highway reconfiguration and where site signage would otherwise not be visible from the adjacent highway or freeway. Sec. 3. The St. Louis Park Ordinance Code, Section 14-185.08 (Table A) is hereby amended by adding the following as Footnote 5: 5. A. Application to the City may be made for an increase in maximum sign height on a lot having all of the following characteristics: 1. Abuts the right-of-way of an interstate freeway or state highway or abuts a frontage road immediately adjacent to an interstate freeway or state highway. 2. Does not have and is not permitted to have directional signage . on the interstate freeway or state highway directing the public to the subject lot. 3. Has no other option permitted by the Zoning Ordinance to provide the requested square footage of signage visible from 50% of, at a plane 3.5 feet above, the portion of the interstate freeway or highway adjacent to the lot. To be eligible for an increase in sign height, the second point of all cross- sectional -drawings, as described below, must be located such that more than 50% of the plane above the traveled surface of the interstate freeway or state highway is obstructed from the first point, as described below. 5. B. An application for increased sign height shall be accompanied by the following drawings drawn to scale: 1. A site plan showing the location of the proposed sign, property lines of the subject property, road alignments of adjacent streets and highways and the locations of any cross-sectional drawings necessary to analyze the request. 2. Cross-sectional drawings necessary to analyze the request showing the entire traveled surface of the freeway or state highway, any retaining walls or fences, any frontage roads, proposed sign location and height and a straight line (the "sight line") drawn between two points described as follows: The first point situated on a line perpendicular to the earth's surface at the location of the proposed sign passing through the center of the sign face and 25 feet above the center line of the nearest adjacent street or the ground level of the base of the proposed sign whichever results in a higher elevation. The second point situated on a plane surface 3.5 feet above and parallel to the traveled surface of the interstate freeway or state highway, located by projecting a line from the first point to its intersection with the plane surface so that the resulting point of intersection of the line with the plane surface (the second point) is as close as possible to the first point while not passing through an intervening obstruction that would prevent visibility. 5. C. The Zoning Administrator may approve an application to increase sign height which meets the criteria set forth in this ordinance where the proposed sign plan meets each of the following requirements: 1. The sign is no higher than necessary to permit the bottom edge of the sign face to be visible from at least 50% of the traveled surface of the interstate or state highway. 2. The top of the sign face is no more than 12 feet above the bottom of the sign face. 3. The location of the sign is such that the increase in sign height is minimized. 1 4. The sign face shall not exceed 150 square feet. 5. The sign lighting is either internal or indirect and no light source is visible beyond the property lines of the lot. 6. Illuminated signs located within 400 feet of a structure or structures used for residential purposes shall have its illuminated portion shielded from view of such residential structure or structures. Sec. 4. The contents of Planning Case File 90-83-ZA are hereby entered into and made part of the public hearing record and the record of decision for this case. Sec.5. This Ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after its publication. Adopted by the City Council February 25, 1991 Reviewed for administration: Ma br Approved as to form and execution: W C-19'(491 21.6mPewm) City Manager City Attorney 90-83-ZA:RES3 Minnesota Suburban Newspapers AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ft -TATE OF MINNESOTA) COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) ss Gregory P t a c i n , being duly sworn on an oath says that he/she City of St. Louis Park SUMMARY (Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO 1849-91 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE RELATING TO ZONING BY AMENDING SECTION 14-18508 (TABLE Al' This ordinance states that Section 14-1&5 08 shall be amended to add language to Footnote Five of Table A which will allow an increase in sign heights on properties presently affected by con- struction related to f-394 Adopted by the City Council February 25, 1991 /s/ LYLE HANKS Mor A copy of the full text of this ordinance is available for inspection with the City Clerk (March 6, 1991) -SLP the publisher or authorized agent and employee of the publisher of the newspaper known as S t . Louis Park Sailor , and has full knowledge of the facts which are stated below (A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statute 331A 02, 331A 07, and other applicable laws, as amended (B)The printed Ordinance No. 1849-91 which is attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published once each week, for One successive weeks; it was first published on Wednesday , the 6 day March , 19 91 , and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including , the day of 19 , and printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the notice abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Acknowledged before me on this 6 day of March 0 g 91 1 A MERIDE M HEDBLOM NOTARY PUBLIC—MINNESOTA HEtvf tt"PIh1 <CCUNTY 4' CCi 'i'SSI'?,1 EXPIRES 7.2-82 .ove... er BY. TITLE. General Manager RATE INFORMATION (1) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space (2) Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter (3) Rate actually charged for the above matter 110 per line (Line, word, or inch rate) 6490 per line (Line, word, or inch rate) 590 per line (Line, word, or inch rate)