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8 1 difficulty in getting the lights to stop blinking had been part of the • 2 reason for the delay in turning them off. When he told Commissioner 3 Werenicz he only intended to turn off the flashing and didn't want to 4 remove the lights altogether because that would cost him "hundreds of 5 dollars" , and would have them lit only during business hours. The 6 Assistant to the City Manager reported that she had been under the 7 impression that the lights had to be removed as stated in Mr. Childs' 8 memorandum. 9 In regard to the temporary sign he had put out in front of his store, 10 Mr. Belisle told Commissioner Hansen he "probably got permission for 11 that a couple of years ago from Dave Childs" and when the City Manager 12 had told him he could have the sign for up to two weeks every year, he 13 had not realized he had to get the City's permission every time he put 14 the sign out. The store owner attributed his failure to get permission 15 again to ignorance and the fact that he had not gone over to City Hall 16 to read the ordinances. Chair Wagner told him it only took a phone 17 call to the City offices to confirm anything he was not sure of. 18 When Mr. Belisle said he would probably request a variance to the Sign 19 Ordinance to retain the lights in the window, Commissioner Werenicz 20 warned him that in view of his failure to respond to the City's 21 directions in the past, he. might have trouble getting that. The store 22 owner reiterated that failure to respond had not all been one sided. 23 Ms. VanderHeyden told the Commissioners she understood Mr. Hamer to • 24 say that Mr. Belisle had been informed that the Planning Commission had 25 already indicated an unwillingness to allow the flashing lights and she 26 said the City Manager had been in close contact with the store owner the 27 past few months about their removal and had documented his visits and 28 the store's non-compliance after each visit. Several of the 29 Commissioners recalled the removal of the lights as being informal 30 discussion items during several past Planning Commission meetings. The 31 Assistant to the City Manager then reported that in regard to the City 32 giving permission for the temporary sign in front of the video store, 33 she had been told by both Mr. Hamer and Mr. Childs that Video Update 34 had been informed that such permission would not be granted as long as 35 the flashing lights were still operating in the store's window which had 36 been documented as continuing for the next two weeks. This was another 37 instance where Mr. Belisle was supposed to get back to the City but, 38 failed to do so. 39 Mr. Soth said he wasn't certain of the exact Ordinance wording dealing 40 with lights around the perimeters of windows but he perceived the issue 41 before the Commission that evening was whether the Commission wanted to 42 impose the removal of the lights on the conditional use permit 43 regardless of what the Ordinance says, which he said is "within your 44 rights to do if you want the lights out of the window. " 45 Before the hearing was closed, Mr. Belisle responded by saying he had 46 talked to Mr. Childs about the lights and had told him "Why can't I just 47 turn off the blinking lights?, but that I needed to get in touch with 48 the person who sold the lights to me to help me with that." He said