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-2- renew left with the Apache management firm. but he is certain a new lease can be negotiated if the store does well in that location. He said LaBelle's would be delighted if the renovation of the Apache Mall should .attract a major tenant .such as Target to the shopping center. Mr. Jones welcomed LaBelle's to the City and assured the store 's representative the Commission is willing to assist in any manner they can to keep a stable tenant in that building. He said he hopes this store may prove to be a business incentive .for that area. Motion- by Mr. Sopcinski and seconded by Mrs . Makowske to recommend Council approval of a 175 square foot variance to the City Sign Ordinance requirements which will permit LaBelle 's Catalog and Showroom to .re.tain the . existing 445 square feet .of signage on the . east and west sides of the building at 2500 38th Avenue N.E. for store identification, as proposed, subject to the removal of the existing 60 foot by 12 foot north facing sign and its framing, finding -that .granting the. variance' not only meets all criteria set by. City policy for sign variances but, decreases, the total signage on this building, . a goal of- the Commission for several years . Motion .carried_ unanimously. Craig Morris , owner of the barber shop recently approved for the Hedlund PUD, was present to discuss his proposal for altering the existing free standing sign in front of his shop at 3909 Silver Lake Road by adding a thatched roof - effect at the .top of the sign. He 'said theroof addition .will only add one foot to the sign 's height and he also requested the sign be lit with one fluorescent lamp during the hours the shop is open, 8 :00 P.M. at the latest, twice a week. The scale for his. drawing for the sign was not accurate, Mr. Morris said, but he does not anticipate the lateral spread of the sign to be more than: a foot on each side. No ref- erence to Council action regarding the more than a foot provided between the brick .planter and the .existing sign could be found in the,--..minutes of the meeting when the- sign was accepted but Mr. Jones questioned whether plantings had been permitted and personally "would like to see the sign dropped all the way down to the brick foundation to eliminate any air space" . He said his own experience has been such types of. plantings are not too successful. Mr. Peterson' s recollection was that the Commission .had agreed to leave that point to the discretion .of the' Council who had approved the sign as proposed. Motion by Mrs. Makowske and seconded by Mr. Enrooth to indicate to the Council that .the Commission, recognizing the Morris sign is the only free standing sign permitted the Hedlund PUD, and desiring the best use possible in the interim, recommends Council approval of the proposed. alteration of. the sign as long as the height of the sign (_including berming, sign base, plantingsabove the base, sign area, lighting and roofing) does not exceed the 8 feet maxi- mum established, for the PUD. with the stipulations that the light- ing, as proposed,will be turned off after 8 :00 P.M.; the ends of the gable roof are enclosed and additional vertical corner posts