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NoRTI-BWEST ASSCoCIATED CC)NSULTANTS, INC. 4800 Olson Memorial Highway, Suite 202, Golden Valley, MN 55422 Telephone; 763.231.2555 Facsimile: 763.23'1.2561 planners@nacpla nning.com MEMORAN®UM TO: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: September 1, 2005 RE: Little Canada-AE Sign Systems PUD Permit FILE NO: 758.09 - 05.27 Background and Analysis Land Use AE Sign Systems is seeking approval of a PUD Permit to occupy a portion of the Mach One building along Rice Street. The business fabricates signs, and would add signage to the building front and the existing freestanding sign. The PUD Permit involves consideration of the sign proposals as well as the use itself - an office and fabrication use in the City's PUD zone. The PUD District along Rice Street is intended to serve as an office, retail, and service business district. For some businesses, incidental fabrication is an integral part of the commercial activity, which may be more office or retail in nature. The issue for most cases is to define the essential principal use, and when fabrication is merely an incidental accessory use. The applicant has not submitted floor plans or other information about the nature of the use of the building. These details should be provided to the City to verify the consistency of the use with the objectives of the PUD Zoning District. signage The second issue relates to the Sign proposals. The applicant has not indicated any other changes to the exterior of the building. The sign request is comprised of two components. The first is a request to add a 32 square foot wall sign to the front wall of the building and an additional 32 square foot sign face to the existing freestanding sing along Rice Street. The second component of the request is for an electronic sign board that would comprise approximately half of the sign face on the freestanding sign. 4-