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� • < , _ , � F; ` � :' - -- --_- ---� ---- --- _: : - ------- _—� — --- -y- -- ---- - I-- - -- - -- Item # 10 City of Mounds View Planning Commisslon Report Meeting Date: April 5, 2000 Title: DISCUSSION OF A VARIANCE REQUEST BY DELITE OUTDOOR ADVERTTSING TO ALLOW FOR A REDUCED MINIMUM SPACING REQUIlZEMENT BETWEEN TWO BILLBOARDS Planning Case No.: VR00-003 Applicant: DeLite Outdoor Advertising Company, Inc. / Sysco Foods Location: 2400 County Road J Applicable Regulations: • Scction 1008.08, Subdivision lOc requires that therc be a minimum 1,000 feet separating any two billboards in the City. Section 1125.02, Subd. 2 outlines the criteria to be used by the Planning Commission in its review of varianccs. Background: On December 13, 1999, the City Council adopted Ordinance 644 which amended the City Code to allow for the installation of billboards north of State Highway 10 (formerly known as TH 118) as conditional interim uses. Sysco Foods and the Bridges Golf Course are the only properties north of State Highway 10 where billboards could be located according to the ordinance. The City was first to apply for billboards, requesting six to be located on Bridges Golf Course property. The unique stone-monument design and associated landscaping of these billboards was an important feature to the City to ensure a good fit with the golf course. The locations of the six billboards were chosen so as not to impede, obstruct or inhibit golf course operations while providing signage visibility to motorists. Not long after the City's formal application was accepted, DeLite Outdoor Advertising Company, representing Sysco Foods, applied for an interim use permit to allow for two billboards to be located on Sysco property. Upon initial review, it was discovered that the second proposed sign on Sysco's property would be too close to the City's first sign on the Go(f Course. Representatives of both parties worked to resolve the inadequate spacing, but in the end, short of one party losing a requested sign, a resolution was not forthcoming. The Planning Commission, in its recommendation to the City Council regarding Sysco's interim use permit application, recommended approval conditioned upon Sysco applying for and obtaining approval of a variance to resolve the spacing deficiency. On March 17, 2000, the City received DeLite's variance application.