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<br />ORDINANCE 90 - 28 <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 900.22 - SIGN REGULATIONS <br />SUB(3b) - PROHIBITED SIGNS <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The City Council of the City of Elk River does ordain as <br />follows: <br /> <br />Section 1. That Section 900.22 (3b) of the City of Elk <br />River Code of Ordinances titled, "Prohibited Signs" be amended <br />by deleting (xii). The amended ordinance shall read as follows: <br /> <br />b. Prohibited Siqns <br /> <br />The fOllowing types of signs are prohibited in all <br />districts: <br /> <br />(i) Abandoned signs which no longer identify or <br />advertise a bona fide business, service, product, <br />or activity or for which no legal owner can be <br />found. <br /> <br />(ii) Banners, pennants, festoons, and searchlights <br />except as a permitted temporary special event <br />sign under Section 4a (vii). <br /> <br />(iii) Signs imitating or resembling official traffic or <br />government signs or signals. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(iv) Signs attached to trees, telephone poles, pUblic <br />benches, streetlights, or placed on any public <br />property or public right-of-way. <br /> <br />(v) Signs placed on vehicles or trailers which are <br />parked or placed for the primary purpose of <br />displaying said sign except for portable signs or <br />lettering on buses, taxis, or vehicles operating <br />during the normal course of business. <br /> <br />(vi) Signs suspended beneath a canopy, overhang, roof, <br />or marquee without a minimum clearance from grade <br />of eight (8) ft. in a vehicular way or seven (7) <br />ft. in a pedestrian way. <br /> <br />(vii) Any roof sign or sign erected above the roof line <br />of a building. <br /> <br />(viii) Any sign placed within thirty (30) feet of any <br />intersection that may obstruct motorist or <br />pedestrian visibility. <br /> <br />(ix) Rotating, flashing signs or animated. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(x) Unsafe/dangerous signs. <br />(xi) Painted Wall signs. <br />