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Page 1 of 4 RESOLUTION NO. _____ STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON RESOLUTION MAKING FINDINGS OF FACT AND DENYING REQUESTED VARIANCES TO SIGN SIZE AND HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS, BUT APPROVING A LESSER HEIGHT VARIANCE TO AUTHORIZE CONSTRUCTION OF A DYNAMIC ELECTRONIC GROUND SIGN AT 386 CLEVELAND AVENUE WHEREAS, the City of New Brighton is a municipal corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota; and, WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of the New Brighton has adopted a comprehensive plan and corresponding zoning regulations to promote orderly development and utilization of land within the city; and, WHEREAS, Lauris Valtinson (the “Applicant”) is owner of property at 386 Cleveland Avenue SW which has the property identification number of 32-30-23-14-0017 and is legally described as: The North 300.00 feet, except therefrom the Northerly 205.68 feet of that part of the South 10 acres of the Southeast Quarter or the Northeast Quarter of Section 32, Township 30, Range 23, Ramsey County, Minnesota, lying Easterly of State Trunk Highway 394. and WHEREAS, the Applicant’s property is guided by the Comprehensive Plan for Commercial use, and is zoned B-1 on the City’s official zoning map; and WHEREAS, business signs in the B-1 district must be 10-feet from property lines abutting roads, not exceed 25 feet in height, and not exceed 36 square feet in area; and WHEREAS, in 2003, the city mistakenly permitted a 40 square foot wall sign which, because it is only visible from a freeway, should not have been permitted as Freeway signs were not allowed in the B-1 district in 2003; and WHEREAS, the sign is considered legal nonconforming; and WHEREAS, in 2020, MnDOT began construction of a sound wall on I-35W that will block view of the legal nonconforming wall sign from the freeway; and