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-5- ordinance allowance. The Mayor recalled that had been the case because the store owners had been unwilling to reduce the signage on their building for a larger sign • in front. Charlene Johnson, a Hardees' owner, was present and indicated the franchise would be changing their signage to a more compact, narrower image which, hopefully, would be smaller than the sign she and her husband were now requesting to be erected in the spring. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to accept the Planning Commission's recommendation to grant Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Johnson, 1927 Simpson Street, Roseville, a variance to the City Sign Ordinance which would allow the. construction of a 55 square foot per side, free standing, ground-hugging, monument type sign in lieu of the existing pylon roof sign of the same size on the Hardees Restaurant at 4000 Silver Lake Road. The sign, to be constructed on a two foot planter of masonry grade construction, with less than a foot of empty space between the planter and the sign for greenery; with the total sign height no more than 8 feet above grade.; and to be located east ofthe existing Hardees Restaurant building, as indicated on the site plan provided by the petitioners, which should also become part of this motion. In granting the variance to allow a commercial free standing sign, the Council finds, as did the Planning Commission, that: 1 . Precedents for granting similar variances for monument type signs had been established in the immediate vicinity for the St. Anthony Townhomes, Goodyear Tire Center, and Cadwallader.-.Realty, etc. ; 2. No significant opposition to the sign was expressed during the December 2nd • Planning Commission hearing, the Council 's December 3rd consideration, or to staff prior to .either meeting; and 3. The applicants have consistently f ol,lowed up on-earlier agreements they had with the City related to this property. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Childs reported the owner of the Standard Station at 2812-27th.Avenue N.E. had contacted him to indicate,, '_�he had gotten dates mixed for the hearing on his request for a setback variance and subdivision without platting, which would enable him to make improvements he proposed to his property, which had been tabled by the Commission the previous evening. The Manager indicated Mr. Bona understood the matter would be brought up again in January. Commissioner Bjorklund concluded his report by addressing his own departure from the Planning Commission after seven or eight years of service on that board, which he indicated he had enjoyed very much. The Commissioner thanked the Council for the opportunity to serve-.and indicated that he "sees no major problems at all in the Council/Commission relationships" . As he had stated the previous evening, Commissioner Bjorklund reiterated that it had been his own personal observation that "the greatest competency exists -at the lowest local governmental level ", and, he noted, "conversely, the higher the level of government, the more incompetency seemed to be demonstrated" . The departing Commissioner said he perceived, "a great degree of competency" in the six members remaining on the Planning Commission which led him to expect, "things would go very well next year". The only criticism Commissioner Bjorklund said he had • over the years he had served, was that he would have preferred to see better staff enforcement, particularly .in regard to signage, policing of fences, building inspections