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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes September 17, 1996 • Page 7 1 First Bank. Pushing the addition toward Silver Lake Road would encroach into the county 2 setback and exceed the average of the front yard depths of the adjacent lots. 3 Ms. Moore-Sykes reported Ste. Marie Company is also requesting a sign variance for the 4 proposed addition. As the site plan shows, this addition is situated such that it has business 5 frontage on the east side, along Silver Lake Road. Ms. Rothschild is requesting a sign variance 6 for the north side of the proposed addition, which has no business right-of-way. It is being 7 proposed that the wall sign be extended to wrap around to the north side of the building, which 8 will take advantage of the southbound vehicular traffic, as well as the traffic on the Apache Plaza 9 site. This proposed wall sign will not exceed 15%of the wall area to which the sign will be 10 applied. 11 Staff is recommending the approval of the rear yard setback variance request as requested by Ms. 12 Rothschild of the Ste. Marie Company. The requested setback is from a lot line which is 13 adjoining an interior driveway intended for use by the customers of the shopping center and is 14 not adjoining another lot. If the request for the variance is granted, it will not alter the essential 15 character of the locality but allow the site to be redeveloped into a reasonable commercial use. 16 The circumstances causing.the hardship that necessitated the need to request this rear yard setback were created by the location of the site between a county road right-of-way and an interior driveway through this shopping center and were not created by the'owner. It is possible 19 that as the shopping center is redeveloped, this interior driveway could change or cease to exist. 20 So, while a setback variance is required by City Ordinance,the impact of constructing the 21 proposed addition 1 foot, 6 inches from the property line that is adjacent to an interior driveway 22 is not as great as it would be if constructed adjacent to another building on the site or adjacent to 23 a residential area. 24 Staff is also recommending the approval of the sign variance request for business right-of-way 25 frontage on the north side of the proposed addition to accommodate the need.for increased 26 visibility for traffic going southbound on Silver Lake Road and traffic in the retail center. 27 The conditions upon which this variance request is based are unique to this area because Apache 28 Plaza is being redeveloped into a retail center that has independent retail businesses being 29 planned along Silver Lake Road and are not part of the main retail center. The applicant desires 30 to take advantage of the potential for increased traffic attracted to the Apache Plaza by utilizing a 31 wrap around wall sign concept to provide increased visibility to potential customers driving 32 either on Silver Lake Road or on the driveways through Apache Plaza. The applicant will not 33 require more sign surface area than what is allowable by the City's wall sign ordinance. 34 Commissioner Makowske stated the reason for allowing larger monumental signs on these parcels was that they are included in the Comprehensive Sign Package for Apache Plaza. Staff is it now asking the Commission to consider these developments as being separate from Apache 37 Plaza.