HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 11-2015 - Amending City Code Section 11.70 Relating to Sign Permits - 09/24/2015 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 11-2015
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRE, MINNESOTA, AMENDING CITY
CODE CHAPTER 11 SECTION 11.70 RELATING TO SIGN PERMITS AND
ADOPTING BY REFERENCE CITY CODE CHAPTER 1 AND SECTION 11.99
WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, CONTAINS PENALTY PROVISIONS.
The City Council of the City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, ordains:
Section 1. City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision 2, item 47 is added as follows:
"City Entry Monument Sign" - A monument sign, including associated decorative
elements, erected by the city to denote entrances into the city."
Section 2 City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision 3. D. is amended in its entirety as follows:
"No sign other than those directing vehicle or pedestrian movements, those
pertaining to traffic control or safety, or City Entry Monument signs shall be
erected or temporarily placed within any street right-of-way or upon any public
easement."
Section 3. City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision 3. N. is amended by deleting the following
sentence:
"The total of all directional signs upon a site shall not exceed 36 square feet."
Section 4. City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision 3. X. is amended by adding at the
beginning of the sentence the words "Freestanding signs that are"; changing the
word "Double" to lower case; and changing the number of feet from 18" to 30" so
that the sentence as amended provides:
"Freestanding signs that are double faced signs shall be placed back to back with
not more than 30" between facings."
Section 5. City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision 4. B. 2. b. is amended by adding the
following sentence as the end of the paragraph b:
"Provided that the maximum sign area for any individual wall sign in a multi-
tenant building shall not exceed 300 square feet."
Section 6. City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision 4. C. 2 (b) is amended by deleting the word
"accessory use" and replacing it with the words "leasable space".
Section 7. City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision 4. D. 2 (b) is amended by deleting the word
"accessory use" and replacing it with the words "leasable space".
Section 8. City Code Chapter 1 entitled "General Provisions and Definitions Applicable to
the Entire City Code Including Penalty For Violation" and Section 11.99 entitled
"Violation a Misdemeanor" are hereby adopted in their entirety, by reference, as
though repeated verbatim herein.
Section 9. This ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage and publication.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie on the
1" day of September, 2015, and finally read and adopted and ordered published at a regular
meeting of the City Council of said City on the 151" day of September 2015.
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Kat een Porta, City Clerk 'y uke s, ayor
PUBLISHED in the Eden Prairie News on September 24, 2015.
SIGN PERMIT REGULATIONS
CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE 11-2015
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA AMENDING
CITY CODE CHAPTER 11, SECTION 11.70; AND ADOPTING BY REFERENCE CITY
CODE CHAPTER 1 AND SECTION 11.99 WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS
CONTAIN PENALTY PROVISIONS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA, ORDAINS:
Summary: This ordinance amends Chapter 11 Section 11.70 relating to sign permit
regulations including adding requirements for entry monument signs and amending requirements
for free standing and wall signs.
Effective Date: This Ordinance shall take effect upon publication.
ATTEST:
K teen Porta, City Clerk at a cy T - Lu ns, ay r
PUBLISHED in the Eden Prairie News on September 24, 2015.
(A full copy of the text of this Ordinance is available from City Clerk.)
Affidavit of Publication
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SIGN PERMIT
REGULATIONS Laurie A. Hartmann, being duly sworn, on oath says that she is the authorized agent of the
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE g Y Y g
11-2015 publisher of the newspapers known as the Eden Prairie News and Lakeshore Weekly News and
AN ORDINANCE OF THE has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows:
CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE,
MINNESOTA AMENDING CITY (A) This newspaper has complied with the requirements constituting qualification as a legal
CODE CHAPTER 11, SECTION newspaper,as provided by Minnesota Statute 331A.02,331A.07,and other applicable laws,as
11.70; AND ADOPTING BY amended.
REFERENCE CITY CODE _
CHAPTER 1 AND SECTION B The printed public notice that is attached to this Affidavit and identified as No. "Z-2
11.99 WHICH AMONG OTHER ( ) P
THINGS CONTAIN PENALTY was published on the date or dates and in the newspaper stated in the attached Notice and said
PROVISIONS. Notice is hereby incorporated as part of this Affidavit.Said notice was cut from the columns of
THE CITY COUNCIL OF the newspaper specified.Printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z,both
THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE, inclusive,and is hereby acknowledged as being the kind and size of type used in the composition
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Nancy Tyra-Lukens,Mayor Subscribed and sworn before me on
Attest: Kathleen Porta,City
Clerk
(A full copy of the text of }
this Ordinance is available from thiO day of 2015
City Clerk.)
(Published in the Eden Prairie ;a��,,, q�,
News on Thursday, September i � + ._ �r " �K 4
24 2015;No.3903)
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