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-4- Proponents: same as for conditional use permit. • Opponents: none. Commission recommendation: agreed with staff recommendation that "pylon" sign should not be allowed. Council Reaction: Makowske - told proponents that free-standing signs had been denied for Zantigo Restaurant in Apache Plaza as well as other types of City businesses in the past. Ranallo - said the Council had also denied additional signage for Slumberland, etc. in the same center to avoid proliferation of signage. Sundland - recalled a long history of opposition to "pylon" signs in St. Anthony. Marks - agreed with Commission suggestion that a moratorium on further signage in the center be imposed in anticipation of a uniform sign policy being instituted with the new store fronts. A colored drawing of what the Eberhardt Company envisioned the St. Anthony Shopping Center would look like after the new store fronts and canopy over the walks had been installed with the funds the center owners had allocated for that purpose had been shown by staff at both the Commission hearing and that evening. The Dairy Queen owner told the Councilmembers his decision to remodel his own store to conform to that design had been predicated upon the "verbal " agreement he had with Lara Seven, who manages the center for Eberhardt, who he said he considered to be "one of the best manager's they've ever had down there, having found tenants for all the empty stores with a waiting list to fill any future vacancies". Mr. Plaisted said he perceived the owner's willingness to finally make these improvements had to some degree resulted from the manager's telling them he had threatened to move his Dairy Queen away from the center if substantial improvements to the center as a whole were not made immediately. Other factor's in that decision, as the franchise owner saw them, were the fact that the Eberhardt representative recognized that "there wasn't a single store owner in the center who didn't want the improvements made and that the City's patience with the owner's failure to make any changes down there had just about run out". There was a general Council concurrence with the last statement and Councilmember Ranallo added that the City had even offered to support Industrial Development Bond financing for those improvements. Mr. Childs pointed out that there would still be a Dairy Queen logo on the mansard roof which would be in keeping with the signage proposed for the rest of the stores in that shopping center and that the existing revolving sign on top of the building now had been "grandfathered in" with the new Sign Ordinance. Motion by Marks, seconded by Enrooth to follow the Planning Commission recommenda- tion to deny the request for a free-standing sign for the St. Anthony Dairy Queen at 2612 Highway 88, in anticipation that uniform signage for the entire shopping center would be forthcoming and the City could best deal with that probability by not granting any further signage variances in the St. Anthony Shopping Center. Motion carried unanimously.