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Item No: 5A Meeting Date: May 7, 2014 Type of Business: Public Hearing City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing - Consideration of a Variance request to allow 224 square feet of wall signage at Allegiance Fitness, 2240 Woodale Drive; Planning Case VR2014-001 Introduction: The applicant, Chad Mason, representing Allegiance Fitness at 2240 Woodale Drive, has requested a variance to allow an additional 124 square feet of wall signage on the exterior of their building. Allegiance Fitness opened in the summer of 2013 and leases space in the Mounds View Business Park South. Their building has two visible frontages – one side facing County Road 10 and the other side facing the parking lot, where the entrances are. Each tenant in the business park can have up to 100 square feet of wall signage. Each parcel in the business park can have up to 200 square feet of ground signage, but often that signage must be shared among multiple tenants and any sign is at the discretion of the property management company, if they even provide ground signage at all. The property management only recently installed a ground sign for the south business park tenants, but the sign was placed so that the list of businesses is not visible to traffic going northwest on County Road 10 Discussion: Allegiance Fitness is expanding and will be using most of the building, and want to improve their exterior signage so their business is more visible and to make it easier for customers to find them. Their business is two different types of training facilities, so with the expansion they will have a separate entrance for each of the training areas. Since these entrances are spaced quite far apart they want to put a sign above each doorway. The property management company is supportive of this additional signage request. Allegiance Fitness currently has three wall signs of their wing logo that are 24 square foot each (total 72 square feet). One logo sign is on the County Road 10 side and the other two logo signs are flanking the original entrance door. They would like to keep the three existing logo signs, and add three new wall signs with the Allegiance Fitness wording, for a total of 224 square feet of wall signage. Similar Requests: Over the years, several businesses in Mounds View have been granted variances for additional wall signage: Aldi and Totino’s at Mounds View Square, the retail building with Abbey Carpet, the Carmike Wynnsong theater, C.G. Hill in the north business park, and the KFC restaurant have all received variances or other approvals for signage in excess of 100 square feet. The Mermaid, through its PUD, was also allowed signage in excess of the City’s requirements.