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MEMORANDUM
TO: Daryl Morey
FROM: D. Daniel Licht, AICP
DATE: 29 August 2018
RE: Lakeville – Zoning Ordinance; Freeway Corridor District wall signs
TPC FILE: 135.01
BACKGROUND
City staff has identified an error in the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance regulating the area of
wall signs for commercial uses within the Freeway Corridor District. The Freeway Corridor
District is an overlay district defined on the Zoning Map along the I-35 Corridor within which
special sign allowances are provided for to increase visibility for vehicles on the interstate. The
maximum area allowed for wall signs within the Freeway Corridor District was inadvertently
reduced from 150 square feet to 100 square feet by Ordinance 816 approved on 7 February
2007, which is the same as allowed in the C-2 and C-3 Districts outside of the Freeway Corridor
District. City staff has initiated a public hearing for the Planning Commission meeting on 6
September 2018 to consider a Zoning Ordinance amendment to correct the error.
Exhibits:
Draft ordinance
ANALYSIS
Ordinance 816 adopted on 7 February 2007 was the result of a comprehensive revision of the
Sign Ordinance included within the Zoning Ordinance. The comprehensive revision of the Sign
Ordinance was undertaken to make the regulation of signs by the Zoning Ordinance content
neutral in response to then recent court decisions. The amendment of the Sign Ordinance did
not modify the number or area allowances for signs except as it pertained to codifying the sign
allowances the City had provided for big-box commercial stores under PUD Districts.
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Prior to adoption of Ordinance 816, wall signs within the Freeway Corridor District were
allowed to be up to 150 square feet in area. Commercial uses within the C-2 and C-3 District
outside of the Freeway Corridor District were (and currently still are) allowed a wall sign up to
100 square feet in area. Ordinance 816 amended Section 11-23-19.G.1.b(2) of the Zoning
Ordinance to state that wall signs within the Freeway Corridor District are allowed a wall sign
up to 100 square feet in area.
City staff has reviewed the memorandums and draft ordinances presented to the Planning
Commission and City Council as part of the study leading up to adoption of Ordinance 816.
There is no reference to a purposeful change in the allowed area for wall signs in any of the
documents. City staff has concluded that the amendment of the allowed area for a wall sign
within the Freeway Corridor District was an unintended modification. A draft ordinance to
amend Section 11-23-19.G.1.b(2) of the Zoning Ordinance to allow the area of a wall sign within
Freeway Corridor District up to 150 square feet has been prepared to correct this issue. No
other issues were identified in reviewing the Zoning Ordinance relative to the modifications
made by Ordinance 816.
CONCLUSION
City staff recommends approval of the draft ordinance restoring the wall sign area allowance
within the Freeway Corridor District to 150 square feet as allowed prior to adoption of
Ordinance 816 on 7 February 2007.
c. Justin Miller, City Administrator
Andrea McDowell-Poehler, City Attorney
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ORDINANCE NO.________
CITY OF LAKEVILLE
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LAKEVILLE CITY CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEVILLE ORDAINS:
Section 1. Section 11-23-19.G.1.b(2) of the Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended to read
as follows:
(2) The area of individual signs shall not exceed one hundred fifty
(100150) square feet, except as may be allowed by subsection G1b(3)
of this section.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and
publication according to law.
ADOPTED by the Lakeville City Council this ______ day of _____, 2018.
CITY OF LAKEVILLE
BY: ________________________
Douglas P. Anderson, Mayor
ATTEST
BY: ________________________
Charlene Friedges, City Clerk