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. - - STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF ARDEN HILLS ORDINANCE NO A MORATORIUM RELATED TO THE PLACEMENT OF SIGNS The Arden Hills City Council Ordains: 1.0 2.0 Recitals I. The City of Arden Hills ("City") is in the process of reviewing its regulations regarding new permanent signs and temporary signs in the City. 2. As used herein, "Sign" means any name, identification, description, display, logo, illustration or device which is affixed to, painted or represented directly or indirectly upon a building or other surface or piece of land, and which directs attention to an object, product, placc, activity, person, institution, organization or business. 3. The existing Sign Ordinance is incompatible with City goals and may allow undesirable sign types and sizes. 4. The City anticipates that there will be additional submittals for the construction of new permanent signs in the City. 5. In order to permit the City Council to review and evaluate changes to the City's current regulations and to preserve the integrity of the planning process, the Arden Hills City Council hereby detennines that a sign moratorium for new permanent signs temporary is appropriate. The City hereby adopts a sign moratorium applicable to thc construction or installation of new signs in the City except for the following: 1. Construction of signs in residential sign district 1 and district 2 (Figure 1) shall be allowed without a permit, provided that they are six square feet or less in size, are less than eight feet in height, maintain the structure setbacks of the underlying zone, and are not illuminated in any form. 2. The sign face on an existing wall, freestanding, monument, or pole sign may be replaced with a sign permit provided that the new sign face does not exceed the dimensions ofthe sign face before the adoption ofthis Moratorium. 3. Temporary signs may be permitted with a sign pennit for a total of90 days per calendar year or upon tennination of the Moratorium, whichever is carlier, provided that the temporary sign does not require any new construction or structural modifications and is in accordance with the sign area, height, and lighting restrictions listed in Table 1. 4. Off-site signs and billboards shall be prohibited in all sign districts in Table 1. 5. Official public notices or waming signs required by local, state or fcdera1law, including but not limited to traffic control and other regulatory purpose signs may be posted without a sign permit.