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-2- She read the .motion recommending Council approval of the variance to \ the City Sign Ordinance which would permit the additional wall sign- 1 age requested -for the west side of _the Zantigo Restaurant at Apache �f Plaza Shopping Center. 'There was no one present to speak either for or against the request and. the Council indicated its concurrence as follows : Motion by Councilman Letourneau and seconded by Councilman Marks to grant a variance to the City Sign Ordinance regulation -(.which permits only one sign on a, commercial building) for the wall sign on the west side of the Zantigo Restaurant. at 311.4 Silver Lake Road, as presented on Exhibit "Z" , finding, as did the Planning Commission, that: (1) Granting the variance would not be ..detrimental or injurious to other property in the same area because the restaurant is located in a commercial shopping center complex and there are great distances between it and the closest residential proper.ty. which could be adversely affected. (2) It would be a hardship for the restaurant owners if the petition for the variance were denied because of the shape of the building and its location on a small site. within the confines of a large shopping -cent'er, with two street frontages and accesses , and, most importantly, hree entrances from the west, south, and east. (3) The conditions upon which the .application. was based are unique to this particular parcel of land .because of the large exposure of the property to the west, wh-ere the primary traffic is generated from the east and south, making signage uniquely difficult for for this building and property. (4) The total signage for the existing signs on the building, as well as the requested sign, . would be lessthan the permitted square footage for this building, .and, in other respects, this property had been developed in accordance with all City and state codes and standards . (5) No one spoke in opposition to the request, either during the Planning Commission hearing, August 16 , 1983 , or the Council meeting held August 23rd. Motion . carried unanimously. - Chair Makowske then -reported the justifications the,"Commission had cited for recommending the additional lettering on the existing TCF illuminated pylon sign at 3899 Silver Lake Road not be granted. Dave Shannon of American Sign and Indicator Corporation,- 18725 Minne- tonka Boulevard, was present and apologized for not attending the August 16th hearing and for .misunderstanding the "double negative" he perceives in the questions :on the variance petition which should have been answered -in the affirmative. He indicated TCF officials believe they need to inform their own customers as well as those from other financial institutions -that a 24 hour .teller machine had been installed for their convenience in the bank building. . The sign company repre sentative said he doesn't believe the 13 additional square feet of