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Little Canada Planning Commission <br />11 June 1985 <br />Page Three <br />Proposed Features: <br />• Additional sign to be located approximately seven feet from <br />southern property boundary east of existing parking lot. <br />• Area on sign is 100 square feet. <br />• Sign to be erected on 50 foot pole. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Variances would be necessary both to allow the erection of a second sign and <br />to allow that second sign to exceed the sixteen foot height maximum. The <br />additional height would allow visibility from Highway 36, but is to be located <br />on an inside boundary with another commercial lot. It has not been demonstrated <br />that compliance with the existing Sign Ordinance causes hardship for McDonald's <br />or that special conditions on the site justify this exception. Instead the <br />allowance of such a variance would be endowing a "special privilege" on the <br />McDonald's restaurant. Therefore, we recommend that the variance be denied <br />as the sign would in effect infringe on the adjoining lot by towering above <br />it and set an undesirable precedent allowing other commercial operations to <br />erect such signs increasing in height as the distance to Highway 36 or other <br />major interstate is increased. Visibility to motorists on Highway 36 is an <br />advantage for development of sites adjacent to the highway corridor. <br />cc: Joseph Chlebeck <br />Thomas Sweeney <br />Lowell Nagovsky <br />Don Carley <br />Kay Kassinger <br />