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STAFF REPORT To: Chair and Planning Commission Members From: Kim Moore-Sykes,Assistant City Manager Date: November 15, 2011 Subject: Hennepin County Medical Clinic — Silver Lake Village Requested Action: Concept Review Date Application Received: N/A Property Address: 39`h Avenue NE Zoning District: PUD—C 60-Day Expires: Waiver Letter Required: Yes Date Sent: No Future Action: Public Hearing Background: Staff received a call from Richard Lang,Visual Communications Signs, requesting information on the process to apply for a variance. The Hennepin County Medical Center Clinic, which is locating a facility at the Silver Lake Village Shopping Center, has requested a second identification sign to be placed above the entrance. Mr. Lang reported that the owners of the clinic are afraid that some patients may not see the entrance without this additional identification sign. The clinic submitted an application for a larger wall sign identifying the clinic on the same wall as the second, much smaller identification sign. §155.29 DISTRICTS SCHEDULES, (B)(1) states that for Commercial and limited business, one (1) identification (wall) sign per right-of-way frontage per commercial establishment is allowed. This sign may have no more than 2 SF of surface area per lineal foot of business frontage,up to a maximum of 150 SF. §155.03 DEFINITIONS defines an identification sign as a sign which is a non-commercial sign but is limited to the name, address, and number of a building,institution or person and to the activity carried on in the building or institution or the occupation of the person. Attachments: • Application • Written Statemen6t • Site Map