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51 <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> DATE: 10/14/03 MEETING DATE: 10/21/03 <br /> TO: Planning Commission Members <br /> FROM: Susan M.H. Hall, Assistant City Manage <br /> SUBJECT: St. Anthony Shopping Center Sign Plan Amendment <br /> Requested Action: <br /> As requested at the September 16 Planning Commission meeting, the St. Anthony <br /> Shopping Center has presented the attached sign criteria to address logo signage for <br /> their comprehensive sign plan. This is unfinished business from the September 16 <br /> public hearing in the applicant's quest to update their comprehensive sign plan. Since <br /> August, the shopping center has been attending Planning Commission and City Council <br /> meetings to address the need and implementation of logo signage. <br /> Background: <br /> St. Anthony Shopping.Center recently signed leases with two tenants that have regional <br /> and national scope: Bumper to Bumper and Subway. The current comprehensive sign <br /> plan does not provide sufficient flexibility of sign design to accommodate regional and <br /> national tenants that have logo signage for all their locations. <br /> At the last Planning Commission meeting, it was recommended to the City Council that <br /> yellow lettering be added into the comprehensive sign plan for approval to allow Subway <br /> to put up their sign, as they are ready to open for business. It was decided the <br /> remainder of the issues surrounding the logos be addressed at a future meeting once <br /> the applicant presented the City with proposed language. <br /> The applicant is presenting the following to address logo-signage: "All tenant signs must <br /> be individually illuminated neon channel letters with plastic translucent faces. Painted <br /> faces are not acceptable except when used for tenant logos. Painted logo panels and <br /> back lit panels will be allowed provided they are less than 50 percent of the total tenant <br /> sign surface." See attached memorandum from the applicant dated October 2, 2003. <br /> Other items of note related to the comprehensive sign plan and current signage at the <br /> Shopping Center: <br /> a) The Subway logo sign also includes white lettering (as well as yellow). White is <br /> not a part of the existing comprehensive sign plan. This color will need to be <br /> added-into the sign criteria. <br /> b) What is the size of the temporary banner above the Bumper to Bumper store? It <br /> appears to take up more than its' share of the wall area. <br /> c) The El Ray Bakery has up a temporary sign and has for quite some time. They <br /> have not come in to pull a sign permit. What is the bakery's plan for a permanent <br /> sign? <br />