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a hon ills e DATE : APPROVAL : November 15, 1990 TO : Planning Commission Members FROM : Sue VanderHeyden, Assistant to the City Manager 2TEM : NEDEGAARD (EVERGREEN TOWNHOMES) REQUEST FOR A SIGN VARIANCE Nedegaard.Construction Company, Inc., of Evergreen Townhomes, 3412 Silver Lane;is requesting a variance to the City sign ordinance to allow four monument signs instead of the permitted one monument sign per multi-unit development. Each of the proposed signs is 50 inches by 25 inches or 8.65 square feet. The four signs would total 34.6 square feet, which is below the 50'square feet allotted by the City Sign Ordinance. If the Planning Commission recommends approval of this part of the variance, the Commission must then consider the aggregate sign surface area. Each sign monument is 10 feet by 5 feet or 50 square feet. The four monuments total 200 square feet. The City Sign Ordinance allows for an aggregate sign surface area of 150 square feet. The variance would be to allow the extra 50 square feet of sign surface area. The Planning Commission had a number of concerns when this variance request was first presented in September. Staff has since obtained additional information. Monuments: The City Attorney informed staff that if the monuments are not approved as a sign structure, they then must be considered to be part of the fence, therefore requiring a variance for the height, or removal. Staff fully informed Nedegaard that the additional monuments should not be built until the variance for additional signs was approved and that if the variance was not approved, it would be Nedegaard's responsibility to remove the monuments or obtain a variance for them. Fence Height: The height of the fence is 5 feet with the top of the post being 6 feet. Because the complex is serviced by an internal roadway, the front of the structures (facing the roadway) are considered to be the front yard, therefore the fence has not been interpreted by staff to be a front yard fence, but a side yard and back yard fence. When the setback variance was granted to Nedegaard, it was referred to as a front yard setback. However, it should have been referred to as a variance from the right-of-way. The City Zoning Ordinance requires a side yard adjacent to a street to have a 30 foot setback as well as a back yard setback of at least 30 feet. Because the units along Silver Lane consist of both back and side yards, the setback variance required would have been 30 feet, therefore having the same end result. :cjk11.20.90