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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. B. Temporary wall signage may be permitted for 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. The total temporary wall sign area for each tenant shall not exceed one half of the permitted permanent wall sign area as allowed in Section 1240.02 Table 1. Each business shall not have more than one wall or freestanding temporary sign at a time. C. One temporary freestanding sign may be permitted for 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. The total area of all temporary freestanding signage for the parcel shall not exceed one half of the permitted area of permanent freestanding signage for the parcel as allowed in Section 1240.02 Table 1. The total permitted temporary freestanding sign area shall be allocated by the property owner or their designee among its tenants. Subd. 4 Grand Openings. New businesses with grand openings are eligible for one additional temporary sign permit of any type permitted in the underlying sign district with an approved permit. The sign may be in place for up to thirty (30) days provided all other requirements in this section are met and the required permits are obtained. This eligibility shall expire six months after the business opens. Subd. 5 Lease or Vacant Space. Buildings or parcels with space for sale or lease may obtain a temporary sign permit for one temporary wall or monument sign that does not expire until seven (7) days after the building or parcel is leased or 9