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<br />(Minn. App. 1995). Here, where the extemallighting requirement of District 7 bears no <br /> <br />As noted above, the Arden Hills Sign Code divides up the City into nine sign districts, <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />i <br />I <br /> <br />~ . <br /> <br />reasonable relationship to a legitimate government objective, the City should not be <br /> <br />permitted to enforce that requirement against the 1-694 sign. <br /> <br /><lcross which the lighting standards vary unpredictably. In every commercial and industrial <br /> <br />district except one - District 7 - the Sign Code permits both extemal and intemal lighting for <br /> <br />freestanding signs. See Sign Code S 1240.01 & Table 1 (allowing internally lit signs in <br /> <br />Districts 4, 5, 6, and 8). Internal lighting is even permitted for some residential properties, as <br /> <br />well as non-residential properties within residential zoning districts. See id (allowing <br /> <br />internal and backlit lighting in District 5, which includes residentially-zoned areas); see also <br /> <br />id (allowing intemaUy lit signs in District 2, which consists of "non-residential uses in the <br /> <br />R-1 through R-4 zoning districts"). In fact, the lighting restrictions for freestanding signs in <br /> <br />District 7 are as restrictive as those in District 3, a sign district composed entirely of <br /> <br />residential propelties. The lighting restrictions of Table ] are thus facially arbitrary. <br /> <br />The City's stated rationale for requiIing extemal lighting in District 7 is no less <br /> <br />unreasonable than the Table itself: <br /> <br />With respect to the extemal lighting requirement for District 7, an industrial <br />district, the City examined the character of the neighborhood and the needs of <br />the businesses in the district and concluded that the purpose of the signage <br />allowed in District 7 was not to attract the attention of customers, but to <br />provide directional and locational infonnation. Accordingly, the City <br />concluded that glaring signs and bright signs and signs designed to attract the <br />attention of customers were inappropriate for the industrial character ofthe <br />district. Because the brightest signs tend to be those that are backlit or <br />intemally illuminated, the City prohibited such signs in District 7. Instead, the <br />City required that signs in District 7 be externally lit. . . . <br /> <br />19 <br />