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-3- ` Boulevard N.E. to advertise the availability of a Cirrus automatic teller machine • on the bank premises. The Commissioner identified himself as the lone dissenter, saying his reasons for opposing a second free standing sign for the bank had been well documented in the minutes . He indicated he perceived the overriding reason the other Com- missioners had voted in the affirmative had been because they perceived the precedent for granting a second variance for signage of this type for financial institution's had :already been set, specifically, when the .City had let Twin City Federal add to what was already a non-conforming free standing sign to advertise the availability of a 24 hour instant cash machine inside their building at 3819 Silver Lake Road. All the documentation related to the bank's request, including a sketch of what was estimated would be a little over five foot high by four foot wide sign had been included in the Council 's agenda packet and Councilmember Enrooth commented he had seen for himself that the sign would be positioned "snug up" to the build- ing near the bank's east entrance. Councilmember Ranallo reminded the other Councilmembers that he had been the only one to vote against a second variance for. the TCF sign and therefore, he said, he now had to agree with the majority of the Commissioners that the City couldn't refuse a second variance for the same purpose for the bank at the other end of the City. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Makowske to grant the St. Anthony National Bank, 2401 Lowry Avenue N.E. , the variance-to-the City Sign Ordinance which would allow them to erect the 9 ,square,Joot free standing monument-type sign they proposed at the northeast corner of their bank building which would carry the message "Instant Cash (Cirrus) " on it as illustrated in the. sketch included in the Council agenda packet and initialed by the Planning Commission Chair. In granting this variance, the Council finds, as did the Planning Commission, that: 1 . No objections to the sign had been expressed by the public at, either the November 19th Commission hearing or Council consideration of the variance request or to staff prior to either of those meetings; 2. The sign would be sited in an inoffensive, recessed location, next to the bank entrance and not adjacent to the street, and would be generally small in size; 3. Precedents had already been established for granting similar variances to other lending institutions in the City, namely, to Twin City Federal and Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Associations; and 4. The three questions required by Minnesota statutes and City--ordinances to be answered affirmatively by the petitioner, had been done so in general terms by this applicant. Motion carried unanimously. • Commissioner Bowerman then reported there had been unanimous Commission agreement that the Council should grant the requested conditional use permit for the pro- posed addition to the west side of the existing Nativity Lutheran Church building at 3312 Silver Lake Road as well as a 38 space parking lot to be constructed on the property the church had acquired on the corner of Silver Lake Road and 33rd Avenue N.E.