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/" ./ ,I' I' '~'~"r''1 ~ \)....J.,.,"~_.. .I.. ~.;. ;,; -,'l. ~~, ~! ORDINANCE NO. 394 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON .~ ',1- I '1. I ORDINANCE AMENDING CImPTERXIV OF THE NEW BRIGHTON ZONING CODE I RELA~ING TO SIGN NON-CONFORMITIES 11 The New Brighton City Council does hereby ordain: !! 11 , Section I.' '7he 1966 Code of Ordinances of the City of It New Br1ghton, AppendJ.x I, Chapter XIV, Section 14-230 is hereby I! amended to read as follows: ~ ~ ., ~ ,', q l! I. 'j U .' 1: II 1! :1 h II !l II II I I II L 11 l' . ~ 1I lj Ii II I II 'I !! H II 'I jl I! ! i !I " .- l! Ii II It ,I F II ,i Ii SECTION 14-230. Non-Confor.minq Siqns and Billboards. a. Purpose and Intent. Recognizing that the objectives of the Zoning Code in regard to signs are to create signing compatible with its surroundings, expressive of individual proprietors and the community as a whole, and easily understood while not endangering, annoying or distracting the public, and further .. recognizing that there is signing in the City of New Brighton which does not conform. to the standards set forth in this chapter and which prevents the realizati n of the previously stated objectives, the City Council hereby determines that such non-conforming signs must be brought into partial or total conformity according to the regulations set forth below. '.~ ,c:-" ,,,",, " In making this determination, the City Council recognizes that not only does excessive signing create a distraction to motorists and constitute visual pOllution of the city, but that it c:r:,:eate,s a clutter of signing which prevents such signing from effectively serving its intended function of identifying locations and selling products and services. The Council further recognizes that to allow such excessive and non-'confo ing signing to continue without control prevents the effective functioning of new signing erected in conformity with the present regulations and grants to owners of non-conforming signing a form of special privilege and an unfair competitive advantage. It is the intent of this section to create a fair and reasonable procedure for the total or partial removal of non-confonning signs and billboards. The City Council believes that the procedure set forth herein provides the mechanism for aChieving the public purposes declared in this ordinance while balancing these with the private investment contained in existin signs. This balancing is achieved by requiring sign removal at the times when signs have a low investment value or at times when a property owner has chosen to upgrade a property's signing.