Ordinance 468CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO.468
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20
ZONING
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA ORDAINS:
Section 1. Section 20-1255 (1) of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
(1) Political campaign signs: Temporary political campaign signs are permitted according to the
following:
a. The sign must contain the name of the person responsible for such sign, and that person
shall be responsible for its removal.
b. Signs are not permitted in the public right-of-way, or within the sight triangle.
c. Shall comply with the fair campaign practices act contained the M.S. ch. 211B.045.
d. The city shall have the right to remove and destroy signs not conforming to this
subsection.
e. Permitted from August 1 in a state general election year until 10 days following the state
general election and thirteen (13) weeks prior to any special election until ten (10) days
following the special election.
f. No such sign shall be located within one hundred (100) feet of any polling site.
g. Sign shall be located on private property with permission of the property owner.
Section 2. Section 20-1256(1) of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Temporary signs are permitted as follows:
1. Banners attached to the principal structure shall not exceed 140 square feet.
2. Detached banners shall not exceed 32 square feet and 6 feet in height.
3. Portable signs shall not exceed 32 square feet and 6 feet in height.
4. All temporary signage shall meet the following standards:
a. A 30-day display period to coincide with the grand opening of a business or a new
development (business park or shopping center), which shall be in addition to Sec 20-
1256 (4) (b).
b. A business may display an attached or detached banner or portable sign on three
occasions per calendar year with a maximum ten-day display period for each occasion.
c. Messages must relate to on -premises products or services, or any noncommercial
message; and
d. Banners must be located on the property which is owned or leased by the business which
the sign is advertising. Nonprofit and governmental event banners are excluded from this
provision.
e. Portable signs and detached banners shall not be located in the public right-of-way.
f. Portable signs and detached banners are limited to the driveway entrance area; and
g. No more than one portable sign or detached banner shall be permitted per entrance at any
given time.
Section 3. Section 20-1267 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
1. All permanent signs shall be designed and constructed in a uniform manner and, to the extent
possible, as an integral part of the building's architecture. Multi -tenant commercial and
industrial buildings shall have uniform signage. When buildings or developments are
presented for site plan review, proposed signs for the development shall be presented
concurrently for staff review. All planned centers and multi -tenant buildings shall submit a
comprehensive sign plan for approval by the Planning Commission and City Council.
a. All wall signage shall use individual dimension letters, at least one-half inch deep.
Registered trademarks, company symbols, display messages (less than 6 inches tall),
pictorial presentations, illustrations, or decorations (anything other than wording) and less
than 20 percent of the total sign display area are exempt from the individual dimension
letter requirement.
b. Wall signs shall be backlit if a wall sign is illuminated, and be architecturally compatible
with the building and other signage if in a multi -tenant building. Company logos shall not
occupy more than 30 percent of the sign display area.
2. All permanent monument or pylon signs shall be designed and constructed in a uniform
manner and, to the extent possible, as an integral part of the building's architecture. Multi -
tenant commercial and industrial buildings shall have uniform signage. When buildings or
developments are presented for site plan review, proposed signs for the development shall be
presented concurrently for staff review. All planned centers and multi -tenant buildings shall
submit a comprehensive sign plan for approval by the Planning Commission and City
Council.
a. All center, development name or an individual tenant building signage on a monument or
pylon sign shall use individual dimension letters, at least one-half inch deep.
b. Registered trademarks, company symbols, display messages (less than 6 inches tall),
pictorial presentations, illustrations, or decorations (anything other than wording) and less
than 20 percent of the total sign display area are exempt from the individual dimension
letter requirement.
c. In multi -tenant buildings, tenant panels may be used and shall be exempt from the
individual dimension letter requirement.
d. Company logos shall not occupy more than 30 percent of the sign display area and are
exempt from the individual dimension letter requirement.
Section 4. Sections 20-1302 (2), 20-1303 (3) and 20-1304 (3) of the City Code, City of
Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Wall business signs.
a. One wall business sign shall be permitted on the street frontage for each business
occupant within a building. In buildings where individual entrances do not front on a
public street, a wall sign may be permitted on the entrance facade consistent with the
approved comprehensive sign plan.
b. The sign may contain the name, logo, company symbols, display messages, pictorial
presentations, illustrations, or decorations of the business only and shall have a sign
display area that is in compliance with the district standards. Wall business signs shall
not be mounted upon the wall of any building which faces any adjoining residential
district without an intervening building or street.
c. The total of all wall mounted sign display areas for each business shall not exceed the
square footage established in the following table:
Maximum Percentage
of Wall Area
Wall Area in Square Feet
15 %
0--600
13%
601--1,200
11%
1,201--1,800
9%
1,801--2,400
7%
2,401--3,200
5%
3,201-4,500
3% not to exceed 275 Square Feet
4,500+
Section 5. Section 20-1302 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby
amended by adding subsection (4), which shall read as follows:
(4) Public/Community Signs on property owned or leased by a governmental unit and operated
by a governmental unit.
a. One monument sign shall be permitted per site for each street frontage. Such sign shall
not exceed 120 square feet in display area nor be greater than eight feet in height.
b. Electronic message center signs may be permitted as part of the sign display area. Such
sign does not require a conditional use permit.
c. Electronic message center signs shall comply with the following standards:
1) Electronic message center space used on a sign shall not exceed a total of 40 square
feet.
2) No electronic message center sign may be erected that, by reason of position, shape,
movement or color interferes with the proper functioning of a traffic sign, signal or
which otherwise constitutes a traffic hazard.
3) Electronic message center displays shall not exceed 5,000 Nits between the hours of
civil sunrise and civil sunset and shall not exceed 500 Nits between the hours of civil
sunset and civil sunrise.
4) Electronic message center signs shall not cause direct glare nor become a distraction
due to excessive brightness.
5) The lamp wattage and luminance level in candles per square meter (Nits) shall be
provided at the time of permit application.
6) There shall be no electronic message center signs within 50 feet of a street
intersection (as measured from intersecting right-of-way lines) or within 125 feet of a
residential district, except where lighting for such sign is indirect or diffused and in
no way constitutes a traffic hazard.
7) The message displayed on electronic message center signs shall be depicted in one
statement and not a continuing sentence or flow of information. Flashing, scrolling,
special effects or animated scenes on electronic reader boards shall be prohibited. A
change in the message shall not occur less than every four seconds.
8) Electronic message center sign LED display use for signs within 500 feet of single-
family residential homes shall be limited to the hours between 6:00 a.m. and
10:00 P.M.
Section 6. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and publication.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 11`h day of August, 2008, by the City Council of the City
of Chanh ssen, Minnesota
dd Gerhardt, City Manager
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
(Summary Ordinance published in the Chanhassen Villager on August 21, 2008)
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO.468
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20
ZONING
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
The purpose of this code amendment to Chapter 20, Zoning, of the Chanhassen City Code,
is to amend the sign ordinance providing standards for campaign signs, providing standards for
temporary signs, providing standards for uniformity of construction and design of permanent signs,
allowing wall signs on non -frontage entrances of a building, allowing wall signage on buildings
abutting residential with an intervening street or building, calculate wall sign area as a percentage of
total wall area, and the addition of criteria for Public/Community Signs including provisions for
motion signs.
A printed copy of Ordinance No. 468 is available for inspection by any person during
regular office hours at the office of the City Manager/Clerk.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this I11h day of August,
2008, by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen.
ATTEST:
,,,_T d Gerhardt, Clerk/Manager
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
(Published in the Chanhassen Villager on August 21, 2008)
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Affidavit of Publication
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CITY OF CHANHASSEN
County of Carver )
CARVER AND HENNEPIN
COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE
NO. 468
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
Mark Weber, being duly sworn, on oath says that he is the publisher or the authorized agent of the
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publisher of the newspapers known as the Chaska Herald and the Chanhassen Villager and has
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full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows:
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
The purpose of this code
amendment toa Chapter Zoning,
(A) These newspapers have complied with the requirements constituting qualification as a legal
of the Chanhassen City Code, is top
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newspaper, as provided b Minnesota Statute 331A.02, 331A.07 and other applicable laws as
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(B) The printed public notice that is attached to this Affidavit and identified as No.
signs, providing standards for
was published on the date or dates and in the newspaper stated in the attached Notice and said
uniformity of construction and
Notice is hereby incorporated as part of this Affidavit. Said notice was cut from the columns of
design of permanentsigns, allowing
the newspaper specified. Printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both
wall signs on non -frontage
entrances of a building, allowing
inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the kind and size of type used in the composition
wall signage on buildings abutting
and publication of the Notice:
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street or building, calculate wall
sign area as a percentage of total
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Mark Weber
Aprinted copy of Ordinance No.
468 is available for inspection by
any person during regular office
hours at the office of the City
Subscribed and sworn before me on
Manager/Clerk.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND
APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION,
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this llth day of August, 2008,
this day of CL U Z.i c- 2008
City Council of the City ofwc.
Chanhassen.
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RATE INFORMATION
Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space.... $40.00 per column inch
Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter ................................ $40.00 per column inch
Rate actually charged for the above matter ............................................... $12.19 per column inch