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1 Mr. Cavanaugh told him Midwest Federal has a restrictive covenant in 2 their agreement with Apache which prohibits putting another building within 200 feet of their building. He also said a building closer to 4 Silver Lake Road would block the view of other mall tenants. 5 When no further input to the discussion was offered, the Chair closed 6 the hearing at 9:03 P.M. 7 Commissioners All in Favor of Granting Permit For the Restaurant, But 8 Split 3 to 2 Against the Sign Variance 9 The following comments preceded the Commission motions related to the 10 requested conditional use permit and the sign variance, which were 11 considered to be separate issues: 12 Hansen indicated he would have no problem with granting a conditional 13 use permit for the restaurant, perceiving traffic congestion was a 14 natural occurrence in shopping centers and reasonable actions on the 15 part of management can be taken to control traffic. He also said he 16 thought the existing drives would be able to take care of the addition- 17 al traffic generated by this facility, which would not be much different 18 from the business which was there before in terms of people coming and 19 going. 20 However, the Commissioner indicated he was opposed to the sign, 21 perceiving the distance between the restaurant and the street was .a . 22 result of choice by the center management, who he thought had several other options for locating the restaurant on their property. He also said he didn't consider an 8 foot X 8 foot sign to be "small" as it had 25 been described in the petition for a sign variance. He conceded that 26 the restaurant might be hard to see from Silver Lake Road but pointed. 27 out that other large tenants in the mall suffered from the same lack of 28 identification which the City has always been reluctant to remedy by 29 allowing further signage. He indicated that he would hate to see 30 signs for Penneys, Warners, etc. all start to appear along Silver Lake 31 Road, which up to now the City has managed to keep residential appear- 32 ing. 33 The Commissioner answered the Chair's query about whether he would 34 consider voting for a smaller sign by saying he would not. 35 The Chair recalled a monument sign had been denied Zantigo's and 36 remembered that when the City had allowed Apache management to add a 37 sign for Herberger's below their center identification on the pylon 38 sign, the Council had warned that this would be the last sign of this 39 type which would be allowed at Apache. The general consensus was that 40 they had meant on the pylon sign. 41 Werenicz said he also favored granting the conditional use permit for 42 a Burger King restaurant because he had noted that most of the Burger 43 King facilities being constructed now were very nice buildings which are 44 tastefully done and from his observations of the manner in which they 0 14