Council vote Monday to allow commercial type signs in residential n...
From:
Dan Roe
Date:
May 19 18:29 UTC
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Let me clear up some fuzzy information about what is proposed:
This is NOT an ordinance to put commercial signs in residential areas.
It IS an ordinance to allow, IF EACH INDIVIDUAL CASE IS APPROVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL, signs to be located on CITY-OWNED light poles, standards (another word
for light poles), and "other objects" (if that language stays in).
The signs that would be allowed CANNOT promote any private business. The
ordinance specifies that they must be ONLY signs that promote the city itself
or city events.
Currently, the city does not, according to a map in our packet tonight, own any
light poles/standards along strictly residential streets. They are primarily
around Rosedale, and along Larpenteur near Lexington.
The OVERWHELMING majority of light poles in the city (nearly all) are owned by
other entities, such as Ramsey County or Xcel energy. The present sign
ordinance DOES NOT currently allow signs on those light poles/standards, and
the proposed change to the ordinance DOES NOT change that.
The controversy about this proposed ordinance change seems to me to be the
making of a mountain out of a molehill.
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