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j =6- . • 1 for violating the Sign Ordinance. The next day, . the store owners attorney had 2 called him for further information regarding the variance because "his clients 3 had told him they had never been told to take the sign down". Mr. Childs said 4 he sent the necessary documentation to. the attorney who called him back last 5 Friday to say "it's -obvious, I have-to get back to my client because this docu- 6 mentation is fairly clear and we' ll have the sign down". 7 8 Right after that, the Manager said, .the banner came down and he decided to give 9 the attorney a few more days in which to get the 990 Video sign removed as well . 10 When Commi:ssitoner Hansen asked. Mr. Childs why he had waited any longer, the Manager 11 told him he had perceived the attorney had "acted in good faith and ought to be 12 given at least a week to get back to his clients to get the other sign removed". 13 Commissioner Hansen 's response to this was to state that he perceived the Manager 14 might have been "a little too soft on the owners" . 15 16 Chair Franzese read that portion of the letter to .-the tanning studio applicants 17 which was identicial to that sent to the Karate studio- owner which stated that 18 the Commission policy would automatically be to recommend Council denial of their 19 request if the applicant failed to appear for the Commission hearing on his 20 request. Commissioner Madden reiterated the position he had taken regarding that 21 policy when the Karate request had been considered, that it was his belief "that 22 any Commission policy quoted should .be policy which had been passed by the current 23 Commissioners. Mr. Childs suggested that should be a point to be considered by 24 the Commissioner's that evening, but-, because, as he had informed the Commissioner's 25 at the start of the meeting, it was necessary ,th,r t he leave the meeting at 8:30 P.M. , 26 and was already 15 minutes late, he would be unable to participate in that dis- • 27 cussion. Before leaving at 8:45 P.M. , the Manager assured Commissioner Hansen 28 that it was his intention to cite- the Curtis Mathes store owners August 22nd, 29 if the non-conforming sign was still up on that date. 30 31 After Mr. Childs had left, Commissioner Bjorklund said he perceived the sign problem 32 was just another case of "lax enforcement" rather than -the Council ignoring the 33 Commission concerns about the sign request. The Commissioner said he just wanted 34 to "reinforce what Dave had said, that we are "the most listened to Planning Com- 35 mission there is". He also said he perceives the Council also has their problems 36 w-ith "this community having a very conservative spending policy". The Commissioner 37 told -Commissioner Hansen-this case was nothing compared to the year and a half 38 it took to get the Craig & Company signage removed from their shop across from 39 Apache. Commissioner Hansen said he •perceived the Curtis Mathes owners were "mak- 40 ing-anmockery�-of- they-.City-'s�/Sign ,Ordi.nance`•-e, because he had been told they had 41 been warned three times, once with a letter from the Public Works Director which 42 was hand delivered, that they were going to be fined, to no avail , even though 43 there had been no . question that the sign in question was in non-conformance to 44 the City ordinance requirements, and--the Council had told them three months ago 45 they had to take down the second' sign as a condition for putting up the Curtis 46 Mathes logo. It was the Commissioner's own opinion that "the City was wasting 47 more money coddling the store owners than would have been incurred by taking legal 48 action immediately". He reiterated that ,the store owners had both stood up at 49 the meetings and said the sign would be taken down. 50 51 Commissioner Bjorklund said he perceived there was a necessity for the Commission 52 to continue to be very diligent in these matters. • 53 54 Chair Franzese then asked whether there would be an ,interest in restating the 55 policy which was quoted to al-1 applicants when they were informed. about the hearing