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are operated, had concluded one at Apache would be an asset to the <br /> community. He disputed the information which had been offered regarding <br /> the 19th and Central Burger King, saying he knew many of the Eastside <br /> police and had yet to hear from any of them that this particular <br /> restaurant was a "major trouble spot" in spite of the fact that the <br /> . area is not the same as St. Anthony and the young people who frequent <br /> that spot might not be the same as those who. would be customers of the <br /> Apache restaurant. <br /> The Commissioner indicated he wasn't really opposed to the Burger King <br /> sign being erected in the spot which had been proposed, although he <br /> would like to see it a little bit smaller than 8 X 8. He agreed that <br /> scaling the sign down to 6 X 6 would result in a substantial decrease <br /> in the total signage for this facility at the same, time it would serve <br /> as an adequate identification for the restaurant. <br /> Madden commented that he thought a Burger King Restaurant would <br /> "brighten up" that part of Apache which had been neglected since the <br /> Sports and Health Club closed. He said he also thought the 450 foot <br /> distance between the restaurant and the street was a justification for <br /> allowing an identification sign on Silver Lake Road to let people know <br /> the restaurant is back there. The Commissioner said he wouldn't <br /> object to an 8 x 8 sign but would go along with a smaller one if the <br /> applicants were agreeable to reducing the size. <br /> Brownell, indicated he would be in favor of granting a conditional us <br /> permit for the restaurant but an 8 X 8 sign was a problem for him. He <br /> said he was in favor of granting a variance for the signage on the <br /> building and would not oppose a monument sign which would keep the <br /> total signage within the 150 square feet the Ordinance - allowed this <br /> building. The Commissioner said he would like to see some other way <br /> of directing the restaurant traffic away from the facility so cars <br /> wouldn't be exiting directly onto the service road whether that meant <br /> extending the island next to that roadway farther to the west or <br /> shutting off that access completely -and forcing the restaurant <br /> .customers to use the 39th Avenue driveway with the semaphore instead. <br /> Hansen stated that he wasn't opposing the signage proposed. , for the <br /> building itself, but perceived the residents across Silver Lake Road <br /> were justified in their opposition to a sign next to that roadway. He <br /> reminded the Commissioners that the City ' had allowed those townhomes <br /> to be built in that location and reiterated that he was opposed to <br /> establishing. a precedent for more signage which would ruin the <br /> appearance what is now "a very pleasant appearing street. " <br /> The Commissioner disputed the assertion that the restaurant's location <br /> Pad' it "unique" , saying its distance from Silver Lake Road had been the <br /> choice of the Apache management and he didn't think they had proved any <br /> "hardship" to justify a variance. <br /> Chair Wagmeg said he had to agree that the shopping center management <br /> had other options for locating the restaurant and with Commissioner <br /> 15 <br />