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Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on the 1,8th day of May
1987 at 7.30 p.m. at the City Hall, 6301 Shingle Creek Parkway, to consider
an amendment to the Sign Ordinance regarding off premise advertising signs.
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ORDINANCE NO. 87 -04
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 34 OF THE CITY ORDINANCES
REGARDING OFF- PREMISE ADVERTISING SIGNS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 34 of the City Ordinances of the City of Brooklyn
Center is hereby amended in the following manner:
Section 34 -100. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. The purpose of this ordinance is
to protect and promote the public health, safety, and welfare within the City by the
establishment of comprehensive standards, regulations, and procedures governing
the erection, use or display of devices serving as visual communications media; to
promote and preserve aesthetics within the City,• to provide for necessary visual
communication; to preserve and promote a pleasant physical environment; to protect
public and private property; and to encourage safety upon the streets and highways
within the City of Brooklyn Center, by regulating the type, number, structure, size,
location, height, lighting and the erection and maintenance of all outdoor signs and
sign structures within said City. The City Council finds that off premise
advertising signs constitute traffic safety hazards and are unattractive. The
provisions of this Chapter regulating off premises advertising signs are
consistent with other efforts within the City to enhance aesthetics and promote
traffic safety, such as regulations pertaining to solid waste_, disposal,
anti littering, and traffic safety.
Section 34 -110. DEFINITIONS.
Billboard [A sign located off of the premises where its subject
establishment, product, service, or activity is _located, manufactured, sold,
offered, displayed, or conducted.] See Off- Premises Advertising Sign.
Off- Premise Advertising Sign. A sign that directs attention to a
business, commodity, service, or entertainment not exclusively related to the
premises on which the sign is located or to which it is affixed.
Section 34 -130. PROHIBITED SIGNS.
11. [Billboards, except as provided in Section 34 -140, Subdivisions 2c,
2f, 2h, 2i, 2k, 21, (1); or billboards which may be approved in
conjunction with an Administrative Permit as provided in Section 35-
800 of the City Ordinances; and certain rummage sale billboards as
provided in Section 34 -140, Subdivision 2m of the City Ordinances.]
Off- Premises Advertising Signs except as otherwise permitted by
Section 34 -140 and Section 35400 of the City Ordinances.
ORDINANCE NO. 87 -04
Section 2. This ordinance shall become effective after adoption and upon
thirty (30) days following its legal publication.
Adopted this 18th day of May 19 87
May6r
ATTEST:
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Date of Publication April 30, 1987
Effective Date May 30, 1987
(Underline indicates new matter, brackets indicate matter to be deleted.
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