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  <br />  <br />  Page 1  <br />Sec. 30-864. - Changeable copy signs. <br />(a) Unless otherwise specified by this subdivision, any changeable copy sign larger than 30 square <br />feet will require a conditional use permit. <br />(b) Changeable copy signs may only display advertising information for on-site businesses, public <br />service announcements, or non-commercial copy. <br />(c) Motor vehicle service stations. Signs for motor vehicle service stations shall be regulated by the <br />provisions for the zoning district in which the facility is located, except that within a <br />freestanding sign, an area not to exceed 16 square feet shall be allowed for continuous display <br />(no flashing, scrolling or other animation) of digital or non-digital changeable copy identifying <br />current fuel prices, in accordance with Minn. Stats. § 239.751. <br />(d) Time and temperature signs. Within all commercial and industrial zoning districts, an area not to <br />exceed 16 square feet within a freestanding or wall sign shall be allowed for display of an <br />electronic time and temperature sign subject to the sign provisions for the zoning district in <br />which the sign is located. <br />(e) Digital changeable copy signs. <br />(1) In addition to subsections (a) and (b), the display must be static, and the transition from <br />one static display to another must be no more than two seconds. The images and messages <br />displayed must be complete in themselves and without continuation in content to the next <br />image, message, or any other sign. <br />(2) May not change more often than once every eight seconds. <br />(3) Digital displays must be equipped with automatic dimming technology or other <br />mechanisms that automatically adjust the signs illumination level based on ambient light <br />conditions. <br />(4) No sign may be of such intensity or brilliance as to impair the vision of a motor vehicle <br />driver with average eyesight or to otherwise interfere with the driver's operation of a motor <br />vehicle. <br />(5) The display must be designed and equipped to freeze the device in one position if a <br />malfunction occurs. The display must also be equipped with a means to immediately <br />discontinue the display if it malfunctions, and the sign owner must immediately stop a <br />digital display when notified by the city that it is not complying with the standards of this <br />ordinance. <br />(Code 1982, § 900.22(3)(F); Ord. No. 07-10, § 1, 7-16-2007; Ord. No. 13-19, § 2, 12-16-2013) <br />Editor's note— Section 2 of Ord. No. 13-19, adopted Dec. 16, 2013, changed the title of § 30-864 <br />from "Changeable copy" to "Changeable copy signs."