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-9- (1) It has, not been demonstrated that there is _ a particular hardship • which would result for the applicant if the strict .letter of the City regulations regarding signage were adhered to. (2) The applicant has ample liberty under the existing sign ordinance to advertise his business on the exterior of his establishment the same as other businesses in the same center. (3) The existing non-conforming "Bank" .sign was grandfathered in with the new sign -ordinance and was particular and relative only to that business which has. since vacated the premises and there would appear to be no justification for continuing the use of the pylon sign- for various and sundry other purposes . (4) Under the -existing. sign ordinance the applicant has ample liberty to advertise the business on the exterior of the establishment without using a pylon sign for that purpose. (5) The City sign ordinance only permits lighted pylon signs of this type for identifying large shopping centers .and gas service stations and 'it appears a poor precedent might be set for similar requests if this sign were permitted as proposed. Voting on the motion: Aye: Bowerman, Wagner, Makowske, and Jones . • Abstention: Bjorklund and Zawislak. Motion to recommend denial passed. Mr. Everson then announced that he would like to withdraw the request before it went to the Council and .would prefer .to return to the Com- mission with a different proposal for signage on the building itself. Commissioner Bjorklund then reported he had found the doors to the Parkview Center,:had been locked-, for sometime during the last portion of the evening and since this was the. third .time this had happened to his knowledge , requested staff to contact those responsible. At 10 : 20 P.M. , the Chair opened the hearing to consider the petition for a sign variance which would allow for an additional building sign to identify the Zantigo Mexican Restaurant at 3704 Silver Lake Road from the west side of the Apache , complex. Chair Makowske read the notice which .had been mailed to all adjacent property owners within 3.50 feet of the subject site and published in the August 4, 1.983 Bulletin. No one present reported failure to receive the notice or objected to its content. Mr. Childs confirmed that the required notice distance would not extend to the residents on 37th Avenue N.E. or to the Standard Station owner just south of the restaurant. • The Manager confirmed that before the new Sign Ordinance had been. adopted there would have been no need -for Zantigo to get approval of a second sign on the building.