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f -9- • 1 a 12 inch X 16 foot sign on the office frontage in the Northgate 2 Office Park; or two 12 inches X 16 feet double sided signs to be 3 mounted on the teller facility roof. 4 5 Proponents: Frank Stieve, Treasurer and Manager of Credit Union; 6 Henry Patzke, Credit Union- consultant; 7 Craig Mathias, Northgate Manager. 8 9 Opponents: None. 10 11 Staff input: reported applicants had dropped request for third sign on the 12 north side of the building; 13 1 4 stated that any variance should be conditioned on the Credit 15 Union limiting all additional signage on the building to allowed 16 window signs and the office identification on the building columns 17 permitted all unit owners; 18 identified the Credit Union's office number as 2500; 19 20 confirmed that the square footage for either request would meet 21 the ordinance requirements; 22 Northgate management had agreed not to encourage any more signage 23 on the building if this variance were granted. 24 25 Proponents' Discussions With Commissioners 26 . 27 Stieve: said if have to settle for only a plaque on the building, would 28 like to have larger plexiglass signs on both sides of the teller 29 canopy because the Credit Union clients are finding them hard to 30 locate in the recessed corner of the office park; 332 1 told Commissioner Werenicz he would be satisfied with whichever 33 alternative the City would approve because "we need the signage " 34 now ; 35 agreed that lettering might not need to extend more than 3/4ths 36 of the way across the canopy. 37 38 Mathias: confirmed that the Credit Union, with 2,400 square feet of office 39 space, represented 10% of the total complex; 40 stated that the Northgate management supported additional signage 41 for them because of the high degree of traffic their business generated; 43 said the Northgate would "continue to discourage" any further signage 44 for the office park except the individual placards for each unit, 45 even though future unit owners might do as one other had already 46 done, seek extra signage on his own, which the City had granted. 47 48 Variance for Two Signs on Drive-Through Teller Recommended 49 50 Motion by Werenicz, seconded by Wagner to recommend the Council grant a variance 51 to the Sign Ordinance requirement for only one sign per business to the B.N. Metro • 52 Credit Union, 2500 Highway 88, to allow two 12 inch by 16 foot signs to be 53 mounted on the northeast and southwest sides of the Credit Union's free-standing 54 drive-through teller , facility at the Northgate Office Park on the conditions 55 that: