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Super Valu-Auto. Changing Signs0 eMareh 20 1989 Planning Report: ZN8 - 9 9 g p 9 1 Proposed Action. Staff recommends a zoning ordinance amendment changing signs in the City of Hopkins be approved. This motion will allow automatic changing signs in the B -3 and Industrial districts. Time /temperature signs will be allowed in the B-2 district. Staff is recommending approval because if regulated properly, automatic changing signs can provide a business a useful tool to advertise. Overview. In December 1988,` Super Valu requested the City to allow an automatic sign be erected on their new freezer warehouse. Currently electronic message signs are not allowed in the City. At the December meeting the Commission instructed the staff to draft an ordinance that would allow automatic changing signs in Hopkins. In January and February the Zoning and Planning Commission reviewed the proposed ordinance. At the February meeting the Commission set a public hearing for the proposed ordinance. Issues to Consider. o Should automatise changing signs be allowed within the City? Supporting Information. Nancy Planne Proposed amendment Resolution ) 11- 001- Anderson SUPER VALU /AUTOMATIC CHANGING SIGNS allow automatic ZN89 -1 1111 Page 2 - Should automatic changing signs be allowed within the City? The first response by the staff of allowing automatic changing signs was not favorable. This response changed because it is now felt that if the signs are regulated and put in locations that will not affect the residential areas, they can be an asset to the community. I feel that the proposed ordinance will limit not only the locations but the size of the signs. Residential districts will be protected by not allowing a changing sign within 500 feet if the district faces the sign. The proposed ordinance allows review by the Zoning Administrator and the Director of Engineering if there might be a conflict with traffic. At the January Zoning and Planing meeting, several studies were included in the agenda regarding traffic situations and concerns in other cities. These studies answered the Commissions and the staffs questions on the impact to traffic of automatic changing signs. Some other restricting conditions on automatic changing signs will be that all changing signs will be limited to 24 inch letters and that a business is limited to one automatic changing sign per site. CITY OF HOPKINS Hennepin County, Minnesota ORDINANCE NO: 89 -631 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING HOPKINS ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 570 PERTAINING TO SIGNS BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council of the City of Hopkins as follows That the Hopkins Zoning Ordinance No. 570 be and the same is hereby amended by adding the following provisions: 570.01 Subdiv. 4 Sign - Automatic Changing Sign. A sign such as an electronically or electrically controlled public service time, temperature and date sign, message center or readerboard, where different copy changes are shown on the same lamp bank. Automatic changing signs such as public service time, temperature and date signs or electronically controlled message centers are classed as changing signs, not flashing signs. Subdiv. 10 Sign - Time /Temperature. An electronically controlled sign that is limited to the time and temperature. Subdiv. 11 Sign - Wall. A sign attached to or erected against a wall of a building, with the face horizontally parallel to the building wall. 570.51 Automatic Changing Signs. Automatic changing signs are allowed in the B -3, and industrial zoning districts provided: a) that all automatic changing signs are wall signs b) that all automatic changing signs that face a residential district are located at least 500 feet from that district. c) that any automatic changing sign will be included in the total allowable sign area. d) electronic messages may be changed at periodic intervals by various entry and exit display modes provided that the maximum message time is 20 seconds with a 10 display frame per sequence. The message is limited to 3 per day not including time and temperature e) where automatic changing signs are proposed along a major arterial street or within 150 feet of a traffic signal light, the sign permit shall be reviewed by the Zoning Administrator and Director of Engineering to consider the proposed location, design and hold time. f) that all automatic changing signs shall be on premise. g) the maximum size of the letter is 2 inches. h) that a business is limited to one automatic changing sign per site. 570.52 Time /Temperature Sign. Time and temperature signs are allowed in the B -2 districts provided: a) that all time /temperature signs are wall signs. 570. Height. The top of a sign, including its superstructure, if any, shall be no higher than six feet above the roof of the building to which such sign may be attached or 35 feet above ground level, whichever height is less; except that the height of any changeable sign or name plate sign which is attached to or an integral part of a functional structure, such as a water tower, smoke stack, radio or TV transmitting tower, or similar structure shall be no higher than such structure. Signs, including any superstructure standing or erected free of any building or other structure, shall not exceed an overall height of 35 feet from ground level and shall be located on land in an area which is landscaped, or if such land is part of an approved parking area, it shall be surfaced or paved as required in the zoning code. First read at a regular meeting of the city Council of the City of Hopkins held on April 1 4, 1989, and finally read, approved, aodpted and ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council of said city on April 18, 1989. JAMES A. GENELLIE DONALD J. MILBERT. City Clerk Mayor JERRE MILLER City Attorney 1 Donald J. Milbert, Mayor CITY OF HOPKINS Hennepin County, Minnesota RESOLUTION NO: 89 -5 RESOLUTION MAKING FINDINGS OF FACT AND APPROVING APPLICATION FOR ZONING AMENDMENT ZN:88 -6 WHEREAS, an application for a Zoning Amendment entitled ZN:88 -6 made by Super Valu Inc., 101 Jefferson Avenue South, to allow electronic message signs is approved. WHEREAS, the procedural history of the application is as follows: 1. That an application for a Zoning Amendment ZN :88 -6 was filed with the City of Hopkins on December 2, 1988. 2. That the Hopkins Planning Commission reviewed such application on December 27, 1988. 3. That the Hopkins Planning Commission, pursuant to published and mailed notices, held a public hearing on December 27,1988, continued to January 31 and February 28: all persons present at the hearing were given an opportunity to be heard. 4. That the written comments and analysis of the City Staff and the Planning Commission were considered. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that application for Zoning Amendment ZN:88 - is hereby approved with the following Findings of Fact: 1. That automatic changing signs will be a permitted use within the B -3 and Industrial Districts. 2. The time /temperature signs will be a permitted use within the B -2 District. 3. That automatic changing signs can provide a useful advertising tool to the Hopkins businesses. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ordinance No. 89 -631 is hereby approved for first reading. Adopted this 4th day of April 1989.