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'. '. e e LAW OFFICES OF PETERSON. BELL Be CONVERSE 1800 AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 101 EAST FIFTH STREET ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA 55101 224-4703 (612) ERWIN A. PETERSON ROBERT C, BELL WILLARD L, CONVERSE ROGER A, JENSEN KURT F. WALTHER W. TIMOTHY MALCHOW MARTIN J. COSTELLO DAVID S. ANDERSON JAMES C. ERICKSON WILLIAM M. DRINANE July 7, 1981 Mr. Steve North Assistant City Manager City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, Minnesota 55113 Re: Our File No. Ml-599 Dear ~1r. North: This is a follow-up to my June 25, 1981, correspondence con- cerning the proposed ordinance regulating billboards. In light of the new statute requiring the city to pay "just compensation" if it adopts an ordinance requiring removal of billboards visible from an interstate highway, the City Council may wish to amend the proposed sign ordinance by adding a pro- vision exempting such signs from the phase-out requirement of the ordinance. I have prepared a revision of the proposed V ordinance adding Section 14.038, exempting advertising devices covered by the new statute from the phase-out provision of the ordinance. It would make no sense to require the phase-out of those adver- tising devices over a three year period in that the city would be required to pay "just compensation" under Chapter 117 after that three year period expired. By exempting such advertising devices from the phase-out pro- visions of the ordinance, no new advertising device could be erected along the interstate highway because of the provision of Section 14.030, and if the City Council ultimately chooses .to remove the preexisting advertising devices along the inter- state highway system, under the new statute it can do so by commencement of condemnation proceedings under Chapter 117. RAJ/rb truly, LL & CONVERSE ....@