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The following types of signs are prohibited in all districts: <br />(1) Abandoned signs which no longer identify or advertise a bona fide business, service, product, or <br />activity or for which no legal owner can be found. <br />(2) Banners, pennants, festoons, and searchlights inflatable balloons/displays except as a <br />permitted temporary special event sign under secti< ~i~ 3(1-866(7). <br />(3) Off-premises signs, other than advcrtisiug_si~•ns. !billboards <br />(4) Signs imitating or resembling official government signs or signals. <br />(5) Signs attached to trees, utility poles, public benches, or streetlights, or placed on any public <br />property or public right-of--way. <br />(6) Signs placed on vehicles or trailers which are parked or placed for the primary purpose of <br />displaying the sign, except for portable signs or lettering on buses, taxis, or vehicles operating during <br />the normal course of business. <br />(7) Signs suspended beneath a canopy, overhang, roof, or marquee without a minimum clearance <br />from grade of eight feet in either a vehicular way or eL in a pedestrian way. <br />(8) Any roof sign or sign erected above the roofline of a building. <br />(9) Any sign placed within 30 feet of any intersection that may obstruct motorist or pedestrian <br />visibility. <br />(10) Rotating, .. or 1~1o~~ing Signs. <br />(11) Unsafe/dangerous signs as determined bathe City Administrator, or dc~. <br />(12) Painted wall signs. <br />(13) Signs utilizing flashing and or revolving beacon lights. <br />(Code 1982, ~ 900.22(3) (B)) <br />State law references: Signs resembling traffic control devices prohibited, Minn. Stats. ~ 169.07. <br />Sec. 30-860. Permit. <br />(al Required. Unless otherwise provided by this subdivision, all-signs the erection Alteration or <br />re acation of a sign shall require permits and payment of fees as described in this section. No <br />permit is required for the maintenance of a sign <br />~• <br />(b) Exemptions. The following types of signs are exempt from permit requirements but must <br />otherwise be in conformance with all requirements of this subdivision: <br />(1) On-premises construction signs that comply with section 30-866{~}~~2~ <br />(2) On-premises directional/informational signs and nameplates having a sign area of four ~ feet <br />or less. <br />(3) . PY~rtable A-frame s~<*ns in the Dawntown District <br />{`~}~ Political signs, nn-premises private sale signs or on-premises event suns. <br />{~fr}J5~ On-premises residential or conuncrc:ial real estate signs that com ~h~ with section 30-866 <br />+ <br />{~}(~ Window signs, provided they do not e cover more than 5~ ~~~ercent c~t~ the window area. <br />(c) Application. Application for a permit for the erecri<„~, aAlteration, change of con or relocation <br />of a sign shall be made to the ~ Cih ;~dmi:nistrator, or designee, upon a form <br />provided by the city and shall include the following information: <br />(1) The name and address of the owner of the sign. <br />(2) The street address or location of the property on which the sign is to be located, along with the <br />name and address of the property owner. <br />(3) The type of sign or sign structure as defined in this chapter. <br />(4) A site plan showing the proposed location of the sign along with the locations and square <br />footage areas of all existing signs on the same premises. <br />(5) Structural details as required. <br />Page 3 of 17 <br />