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-5- } • 1 3. The proposed signage could be considered to be an asset to the community and 2 would provide a necessary.. service because it would identify a second business 3 in the store which the community might not know about without the signage; 4 . 5 4. The three questions in the application which are required to be answered in 6 the affirmative by statute, have been done so by this applicant and accepted 7 by the Commission. 8 9 Commissioner Bowerman suggested as a friendly, amendment that the requirement that 10 "the sign be only lit during business hours" be deleted because he perceived it 11 was not at a-ll unusual for- City businesses to keep their signs on past their _12 closing time until 10:00. or 11 :00 P.M. He said he believed that was the advantage 13 of having lighted signs which faced busy:'thoroughfares. ' The Commissioner said he 14 recalled many times in.-the past when similar concessions -had been made for 15 businesses and said he 'perceived the Commission might be imposing an undue hard- 16 ship on Mr. Peters by requiring something of him that is not asked of other 17 businesses . 18 19 Commissioner Jones indicated he could not accept that amendment .because he per- 20 ceived there were strong justifications for not encouraging additional traffic 21 in a business area when the stores are closed. He reminded the Commissioners of 22 the restrictions the City had placed on the hours of operation for the hair 23 studio on Silver Lake Road. Mr. Childs said the City had made that restriction 24 on the Silver Lake Road business because of the shop 's proximity to a residential 25 area and because a- variance was required for a free standing sign but had not 26 done so recently for the Cokesbury store in the commercial area. • 27 28 Motion by Commissioner Madden and seconded by Commissioner Bowerman to amend the 29 motion to delete =the requirement that the new sign be turned off when the business 30 closed. Before the vote was taken, Commissioner Jones said he perceived this 31 sign would also be near residences when the redevelopment project is completed and 32 he indicated he would like to see a policy established for St. Anthony which is a 33 "bedroom community" to have signage turned off when business establishments are 34 closed. He. said he perceived signage is intended to let people know where the 35 businesses they are seeking are . located and doubted many people would be looking 36 for a vacuum after 9:00 P.M. He also perceived lighted signs were a distraction 37 for late night drivers along Highway 88. Commissioner Bowerman asked whether the 38 City' s on-sale, off-sale -liquor operation at the Stonehouse had to turn off its 39 sign when the bar was closed. Mr. Childs told him there had been no such restrictions I 40 placed on that signage. i 41 42 Commissioner Madden indicated he believed the City should grant this business the 43 same privileges which are allowed other business establishments in .the same 44 shopping center and he said he was still hopeful that sometime in the future 45 uniform signage would be established for the entire center even though Mr. Peters 46 had said the center owners -have talked about that for the last 10 or 12 years 47 without doing anything about it. 48 49 Voting on the amendment: 50 51 Aye: Madden and Bowerman. ( • 52 i 53 Nay: Jones and Franzese. 54 55 Motion -not carried.