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-2- • 1 2. No accessory or any portion of structures, including garages, shall be 2 located within three feet of any property line. 3 4• 4. Unless attached to and made a part of the principal structure, any portion 5 of any accessory building shall not be closer than five feet from any 6 portion of a principal structure. 7 8 In recommending this ordinance amendment, the Planning Commission finds that: 9 10 1 . A public hearing on the amendment was conducted by the Planning Commission 11 March 19, 1985; and 12 13 2• No one spoke in opposition to the amendment. 14 15 Motion carried unanimously. 16 17 At 7:50 P.M. , the public hearing was opened to consider a petition for a variance 18 to the City Sign Ordinance from Egekvist Bake Shops, 3005 - 37th Avenue NE. , which 19 would allow more signage on that building than is permitted by the Ordinance. The 20 Chair read the notice of the hearing which had been published in the March 5, 21 1985 Bulletin and mailed to all property owners of record within 200 feet of the 22 subject property. 23 24 No one present reported failure to receive the notice or objected to its content. 25 Mr. Childs indicated staff had received no calls related to the Egekvist request 26 that they be allowed to add 3 X 5 foot signs on the east and west walls of their • 27 building, in addition to the existing 3 X 23 foot sign on the front, which would 28 bring their signage -27 square feet in excess of the total square footage allowed a 29 building with 36 feet of business frontage, and two signs more than the number 30 of allowed signs. 31 32 In his March 15th memorandum to the Commission, the Manager had alerted the Com- 33 mission members that there would be two more sign requests for other City businesses 34 next month which would propose exceeding the limitation on the number of signs 35 allowed by the Sign Ordinance,. as well as square footage. 36 37 John Pratt, Sales Manager for Emrich Baking Company, 912 East 24th Street, reiterated, 38 as stated in his February 6th letter attached to the variance request, that the 39 owners of the thrift bakery blamed the lower than projected sales for this store 40 on the store's low visibility from Silver Lake Road as well as 37th Avenue, since 41 they perceived most sales for a business of this type are made by impulse.. The 42 store representative told Commissioner Bjorklund that he had been advertising the 43 new store and it had helped to some extent, but the store was only doing half of 44 what had been projected for a store on such a heavily travelled road. Mr. Pratt 45 said it had been the conclusion of the corporate consultants and other bakery 46 representatives that the store needed more signage to succeed. He also said the 47 Rapid Oil Change station next to his bakery seems to have "signs everywhere". The 48 sales manager indicated that if sales continue to fail to meet the sales projected 49 for it, Emrich might decide not to renew their lease for that location. 50 51 Mr. Pratt was told by several Commissioners that it might be the difficulty of 52 getting in and out of the store from 37th Avenue, rather than- the signage, which 53 accounted for the lower sales and the present condition of that roadway might cause 54 the drivers to keep their eyes on the road rather than to be looking around for 55 signs. Because only drivers going north would be apt to see the store from the