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STAFF REPORT DATE: September 17, 1996 TO: Planning Commission Members FROM: Kim Moore-Sykes, Management Assistant ITEM: Rear Yard Variance Request and Sign Variance Request for a Proposed Municipal Liquor Store, Lot 5, Block 1, Silver Lake Center (Apache Plaza) -- 96-15. BACKGROUND: Rear Yard Variance Request. Ste. Marie Company, as owner of the property at Apache Plaza Shopping Center, has applied for a rear yard variance of 18 feet, 6 inches from the required setback of the west lot line of the Tires Plus site for an addition they are planning to build. The City Ordinance requires that commercial buildings have a rear yard setback of 20 feet. The proposed addition will be situated 1 foot, 6 inches from the west property line of the site. The 4,807 square foot proposed addition is being built in addition to the existing 3,493 square feet of the Tires Plus building and is proposed to be used-as a municipal liquor store. The proposed municipal liquor store will have 8,300 square feet. The variance is being requested because the co_nstruction of the addition is limited on the site because of an interior driveway that runs parallel to the west property line and Silver Lake Road that runs parallel to the site on the east.. Because Silver Lake Road is designated as a county road, the proposed addition is subject to county road setback requirements, thereby limiting expansion to the east. Also, City Ordinance restricts expansion in this direction because the proposed addition must have a:setback of 35 feet or a.-distance equal to the average:of the front yard depths-of- the two adjacent properties. The adjacent properties currently would include Taco Bell, Tire Plus and First Bank. Pushing the addition toward Silver Lake Road would encroach into the county setback and exceed the average of.the front yard depths of the adjacent lots. Sign Variance Request. Ste. Marie'Company is also requesting a sign variance for the proposed addition. As the site plan shows, this addition is situated such that is has business frontage on the east side, along Silver Lake Road. Ms. Rothschild is requesting a sign variance for the north side of the proposed addition, which has no business right-of-way. It is being proposed that the wall sign be extended to wrap around to the north side of the building, which will take advantage of the south bound vehicular traffic , as well as the traffic on the Apache Plaza site. This proposed wall sign will not exceed 15% of the wall area to which the sign will be applied.