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i Planning Commission Resolution No. 484-9b November 20, 1996 Page 3 signs aIong Highway 10 and elsewhere used as the sole identification foc shopping centers. Th� signs at the driveway entrances are needed to provide a �anmistakable visual signal at the roadside, close to eye i�vel, of the pcesence of the shopping center since motorists will have tess reaction time than if they had an unimpeded view of the center identification sign traveling ioward Mounds View Square on Highway 10. With the design requirements in the conditions attached to this variance, the signs vvi11 he tied into the landscape and 6e less intrusive. �This variance does not �rant approval foc the monument sign at CountX Road I and Highwav 10.) N4W, T`HE�FORE, BE IT RE�OLVEI3, that the Mounds View Planning Commission acting as the Board of Adjustment and Appeals does hereby approve a modificataon oithe variance request of �Iounds View Assoc, LLP allowin� for three monument signs, with one sign to be placed at each of the two d�iveway entrances from Highway 14, and one sign io be placed at the iniersection of Long �Laice Road and Highway 10, subject to the following conditior�s: This variance is being granted in recognition of the anti�ipated construction of a pedestrian bridge using a spiral ramp design at the intersection of Long Lake Road arrd Highway 10. The signs permitted by this variance shall only be constructed after commencement of construction of the pedestrian bridge, and only if th� bridge uses the spiral ramp design. The applicant is responsible for obtaining sign permits from the City prior to construction of #he signs. 2. The two signs at ihe driveway entrances shall consist of a monument style sign or "sign wall" eonstructed of brick, stone or break-off decorative block and measurin� at a maximum 10 �-2 feet in height and 15 �$ feet in widih. This "sign wall" shaEl have an added wall extension on either side approximately four feet in heighi and � feet in length, finiished with a capstone as is shown for the sign. The sign wall and wall e�ensions shall be curved, to reduce the appearance oFits mass and to approximate the curvature of the drive�svays. Earth shall be bermed against the backside of the sign walI and the wall extensions. �ra� Landscaping shall be planted behind the sign to include at least three trees in a cluster, which shall be of a species which vvill gro�w at matur�t� approximatel� the same hei�ht as the sign . Landscaping may be designed to remain low in fi-ont of that portion sign having wording. The finaI design of the sign wall and sign extensions, and the landscaping plan sha11 be subject to approval by the Direetor oiCommunity Development prior sign permi�s being issued and [andscapin� being installed. , � • The color of the masonry shall be compatible wieh the existing brick used in the shopping center, subject to approval by the Director of Cammunity Development prior to issuance oi sign pernu�s.