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-5- memo related to the St. Anthony .Court signage and agreed to present • the Planning Commission minutes at the Council ' s March 27th meeting. Commissioner Bjorklund then left the meeting. At 9 : 05 P.M. , the meeting was reconvened to consider the townhome identification signage. Motion by Commissioner Jones and seconded by Commissioner Hansen to move the agenda and take from the table the consideration of the signage which had been erected without a permit in front of the St. Anthony Court townhomes . The Manager had researched the files back to 1980 and hadincluded in the agenda packet minutes pertinent to .the Morris signage next to the townhomes and to the P.U.D. requirements for that signage. In his memorandum, Mr. Childs had listed seven different alternatives for Council action, including #4 advocated by Commissioner Bjorklund which would "require modification of the St. Anthony Court sign to a single , more acceptable sign, requiring the removal of the Morris sign" . Staff had recommended both uses have signs with design requirements recommended by the Commission and the Manager said he personally was inclined to require changes in the townhome signs due to their inadequate construction, which he perceives would not be in keeping with -community standards, than he was to changing the Morris sign. • Chester Krumm, who had recently been -selected by the townhome Owners Association to serve as one of three members of the Association Board of Directors, was again present to discuss the two. illegal signs which had been erected by the project contractor, Sid Johnson, before he sold the property. He indicated he knew little or nothing about the City's requirements for signage , about . the circumstances under which the existing signs had been erected, or how that signage related to the P.U.D. requirements for that tract of land. The other two Board members were gone for the winter, and Mr. Krumm indicated he did not expect both would be back in the City for a month or so. Mr. Krumm indicated he would get:..in touch with the Manager to discuss with him Mr. Johnson' s responsibility for getting sign approval for the existing signs and to ascertain just what type of signage would be acceptable to the City. Commissioner Jones observed that, , with the heavy snows this winter, even the non-conforming signs had been hard to see over the snow piled on the right-of-way. He suggested the Association might want to take advantage of the berming which the Rice Creek District had required Mr. .Johnson to construct in the front yard. The Commissioner also told the Association- representative , "at least you won't be cited for the illegal signage until the other Board members get back" . Motion by Commissioner Jones and seconded by Commissioner Wagner to put- back on the table the consideration' of �:the St. Anthony Court sign- age until the June. Planning Commission meeting, unless the St. Anthony Court Home Owners Association is able to come back before that time with. a proposal., which would better enhance and identify the site. Motion carried unanimously.