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capable of displaying manually changing messages. The remainder of the sign area shall not have the capability to change messages even if not used. Manual changing message signs shall not include dynamic displays. 1240.04 Menu Board Signs All Menu Board Signs for fast food restaurant uses. Drive-through menu board sign are allowed for fast food restaurant uses provided the requirements in this section are met. Subd. 1. Location: All drive-through menu board signs shall be single sided and located adjacent to the drive-through lane and shall not be located in any required setback. Signs may be affixed to the building. Subd. 2. Height: A drive-through menu board sign shall not exceed eight (8) feet above grade in height. Subd. 3. Size: A drive-through menu board sign shall not exceed forty (40) square feet. Subd. 4. Number: Up to two drive-through menu board signs are permitted per drive-through lane. The total surface area of the two signs shall not exceed forty (40) square feet. Subd. 5. A Drive-through menu board signs shall comply with the following standards: A. The images, colors, and text may not change more than five (5) times per day; B. All images, colors, and text shall be static with no flashing, scrolling, or animation; and C. At any time the business or drive-through is closed to the public, any Drive- through menu board sign shall be turned off until the business or drive-through is open to the public. D. Signs with speakers or intercoms shall be designed and located in a manner to direct noise away from adjoining properties. Speaker noise shall not be audible to adjacent residential properties. E. The sign(s) shall not be located as to impair the vision of the driver of a vehicle traveling either into, out of, or through the drive-through lane. Section 1250 - Special Provisions 1250.01 Allocation of Permanent Signs on Multi-Tenant Developments and Sites. In multi-tenant buildings or sites, the permitted sign area and sign types, except for freestanding signs, may be installed by each individual business establishment that has exclusive use of some portion of the street or otherwise primary level of the building and direct access to the outside. Tenants located on the street or otherwise primary level in a center with a common mall or atrium shall be considered to have direct access to the outside for the purpose of this section. The management and ownership of any business establishment proposing to install signage must be separate and distinct from the management and ownership of any other establishment in the same building or on the same building lot. Each establishment must be separated from all other establishments by demising walls [as per the International Building Code] having no openings or passages. Subd. 1 Multi-tenant Buildings and Properties Sign Allocation. Signage for establishments occupying a multi-tenant building or site but not located on the street or primary level of the building must be provided from the allocation of sign area and type to the occupants of the street or primary level of the building as determined by the property owner. Subd. 2 Freestanding Signs on Multi-tenant Buildings and Properties. For freestanding signs, a multi-tenant parcel shall be considered one parcel and freestanding signs shall be permitted in accordance with Section 1240.02 Table 1. In the case of multiple tenant sites, the permitted freestanding sign area shall be allocated by the property owner among its tenants. 1250.02 Temporary On-premise Signs. Except as provided for in 1250.03, all other temporary signs shall require an approved sign permit prior to placing the sign and shall conform to the following: Subd. 1 Temporary Sign Permit Length. Temporary signs, including portable signs, streamers, pennants, banners, balloons, inflatables or other similar object with a commercial message, may be displayed on three (3) occasions per calendar year with a maximum of ten (10) days for each occasion. The three (3) occasions may be used consecutively with one permit. Temporary sign permits are nontransferable to other properties or establishments on the same property. Subd. 2 Single occupant parcels. A. No more than one permitted temporary sign shall be permitted at any given time. The area of the temporary signage shall not exceed one half of the permitted sign area as allowed in Section 1240.02 Table 1 for a particular sign type in the underlying sign district; B. Freestanding temporary signs shall only be permitted in districts where freestanding signs are permitted as allowed in Section 1240.02 Table 1. If a conforming freestanding sign is already in place, the temporary freestanding sign shall be attached to or near to the existing freestanding sign; Subd. 3 Multi-tenant parcels. A. Each individual business establishment that has exclusive use of some portion of the street or otherwise primary level of the building and direct access to the outside qualifies for the temporary signs permitted in Section 1250.02 Subd 1. Sign permits shall not be transferrable to other business establishments.