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Dairy Queen June 26, 2000 page 3 • Signage Signage is governed by the City's sign ordinance. Sign permits are required for all signs. All signs will be reviewed with the sign permit applications. A preliminary look raises a concern regarding the number of signs. One building sign is allowed totaling 20% of the building face area. The building elevations show signs on three sides of the building in addition to the larger building sign with the Dairy Queen name and ice cream cone. Any pylon sign must be five feet from the lot lines and there is a size maximum. The revised landscaping plan shows plantings instead of a pylon sign. This must be clarified. • Landscaping The original landscaping plan included a very minimal amount of plantings. We received a revised landscaping plan April 4. Though there are numerous trees added, staff will work with the applicant to improve the plan. • Plat Issues This site is part of a preliminary plat that was approved by the City in December 1997. No final plat was approved. It is not clear how or why the Amoco convenience store was approved without a final plat. At any rate, is best to clean up this situation by requiring that a final plat be approved as a condition of approval for the Dairy Queen site plan and CUP. The draft proposed final plat is attached. On the submitted final plat, Block 2 includes two lots where the preliminary plat had only one larger lot. Staff does not view this as a problem at this time because the remainder of the site is to be platted as a large outlot. In the future, if the landowner wants to create more lots overall than were approved by the preliminary plat, we will require a new preliminary plat. However, since we do not know how many lots will ultimately be created, staff is comfortable with the number of lots on the submitted final plat. We are not technically reviewing a final plat application. However, because the final plat will be a condition of approval for the Dairy Queen, it is appropriate to discuss the preliminary plat conditions. Failure to meet the conditions of approval of the preliminary plat will delay approval of the final plat, which will delay the Dairy Queen project.