HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 4 - Regulating and Issuing Licences - 03/19/1957 TOWN OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEP 1N COUNTY, MI NNESOTA
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AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE REGULATING OF AND ISSUING
OF LICENSES BY THE TOWN OF EDEN PRAIRIE; AMENDING ORDINANCE
NUMBER 3.
THE TOWN BOARD OF EDEN PRAIRIE DOES ORDAIN:
Section I , Ordinance Number 3 of the Town of Eden Prairie is amended
as follows:
Section I is amended by deleting subdivision 6.
Section 2. BILLBOARDS AND SIGN BOARDS. Subdivision I . No billboard
or sign having a surface area of 15 square feet or more shall be maintained,
erected, altered , resurfaced, reconstructed or moved, until a license has been
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secured from the c-i--t_y.. The fee for a license for the construction of new bill-
boards or signs shall be $5.00 for signs not exceeding thirty-two square feet
o.f. advertising surface and -�10.00 for signs containing thirty-two sn+aare feet
or more of advertising surface. Said fee is to be paid upon making the appli-
cation and eaco three years thereafter. h
Subdivision 2. At the time of the filing of an application
for a license to maintain, alter , construct, reconstruct, resurface or move a
billboard or ,ign in this flown, the applicant shall accompany such application
with the description of said billboard and a sketch showing the size, location,
manner of construction, and such other information as shall be necessary fully
and completely to advise the ailil of the kind, size, construction and °}
location of such proposed billboard or sign; and no billboard or sign shall
hereafter be erected, constructed, altered, resurfaced, reconstructed or moved .i
in this town until the construction of said billboard or sign, or any alteration, '
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reconstruction or moving thereof , shall have been approved by the town clerk.
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This subdivision shall not require application for permission to resurface
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any billboard or sign that may have been authorized under the provisions of
this sect-ion.
Subdivision 3. Requirements. No billboard or sign shall hereafter
be constructed in this flown except,until and unless the following restrictions
and requirements have been complied with in good faith by the applicant, persons,
firm or corporation desiring to construct, erect or maintain such billboard or .
sign , namely:
(a) No billboard or sign shaII exceed I feet in height above the ground
and every billboard or sign shall have an opening of at least two feet between
the lower edge thereof and the ground which space shall not be closed in any
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manner while such billboard or sign stands. The owner, lessee or manager of 3`
said billboard or sign, and the owner of the land on which the same is located,
shall keep all grass, weeds and other growths cut and cleaned up between the
billboards or sign and the street, and also for a distance of 6 feet behind and
at the ends of the said board or sign.
(b) No billboard or sign shaII approach at any point nearer than 6 .feet
to any bui Idi ng or the side of any lot, nor nearer than I' feet to any street
line; and wherever the established er customary uniform building line upon the
street where such billboard shall be erected is more than 15 feet from the street
or property line, then said billboard shall not approach nearer the street than
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the established or customary uniform building line.
(c) No billboard shall exceed 500 square feet in area. Provided that when
said billboard shall be composed of three sect I onscompr ised of one center section
and two wing sections, of continuous construction, it may be composed of three
sections of not exceeding 250 snuare feet each.
(d) No license shall be issued to any person, firm or corporation to
erect or construct, or cause to be constructed, any billboard or sign in any
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block on any public street in which one-half or more of the buildings on each
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or either side of the street are used for residence purposes, unless said person.,
firm or corporation has first obtained the written consent of the occupants of
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the residences, owners or duly authorized agents of the owners owning a majority
of the frontage of the property on both sides of the street in the block in w
whico said billboard or sign board is to be erected, constructed or located.
Such written consent shall be filed with the town clerk and made a part of the
application above referred to, which shall be considered and approved by the
town clerk before the permit shall be issued for the erection, construction,
reconstruction, alteration, resurfacing, location or relocation of the billboard
or sign board governed by this section as aforesaid.
(e) Any and all billboards and signs hereafter erected, constructed,
altered or moved in this town shall be constructed in such a manner and of such
material that they shall be safe and substantial; and within the fire limits
of sa i d mtn1I.:tpai-i-ty sha I I be constructed of metal , and a I I posts, braces and
frames shall be of iron (except horizontal bars, which may be of wood) . All
posts shall be set three feet in the earth and in a concrete foundation no less
than two feet s-uare and three feet deep, according to plans and specifications
to be approved by the town r_lerk; provided that nothing in this section shall be
interpreted as authorizing the erection or construction of any billboard or sign
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not permi ssab le under the zoning ordinance of this -e.hpewFhy. rt
Subdivision 4. Repairs. Every billboard or sign located in this
town which may now be or hereafter become out of order, rotten or unsafe, and
every billboard or sign which shall hereafter be erected, altered, resurfaced,
reconstructed or moved contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be r
removed or otherwise properly secured in accordance with the terms of this section
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sign shall stand, upon receipt of proper notice so to do, given by the town
clerk; and no rotten or other unsafe billboards shall be repaired, or rebuilt
except in accordance with the provisions of this section and upon a permit
issued by the town clerk.
Subdivision 5. Removal . In the event of the failure of the owner
or person, company or corporation having control of any billboard or sign, or
the owner of the ground on which the billboard or sign is located, to remove
or repair said board or sign within the time stated in such not ce, the same
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may be removed by the tau at the expense of the owner or manager of
said board or sign, or the owner of the ground upon which such billboard or
sign stands.
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Section 3, Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation who shall engage
in or follow any business or occupation for which a license is re^uired by this
ordinance without having obtained such a license and any firm, person or corpor-
ation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty
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of a misdemeanor,
THIS ORDINANCE was adopted by the Town Board of Eden Prairie on the
day of i✓t�-
1957•
Published in the Hennepin County Review on March 28, , 1957.
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