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MINUTES HUGO PLANNING COMMISSION FEBRUARY 9, 2006 Call to Order Chairman Schumann called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. PRESENT: Bailly, Hoffbeck, Kleissler, McRoberts, Rosenquist, Schumann, Weidt ABSENT: None ALSO PRESENT: Bryan Bear, Community Development Director (CDD) Michele Lindau, Community Development Assistant Kendra Lindahl, City Planner Minutes of January 12, 2006 Weidt made motion, McRoberts seconded, to approve the Planning Commission minutes of January 12, 2005 as submitted. All Ayes. Motion carried. POAC/Fairview Clinic PUD Amendment for Sign in Victor Gardens South The Commission considered the request of POAC Investments for a PUD Amendment for "Victor Gardens South Village" to allow a monument sign for property located at 14663 Mercantile Drive North. Fairview Health Clinic and the Institute for Athletic Medicine are located in the building on the site. The CDD explained that a PUD general plan for the construction of 14 townhomes and approximately 56,000 square feet of commercial space was approved in 2004. The PUD flexibility allowed the developer to construct two 17 -foot tall multi -tenant identification monument signs near CSAH 8 with 80 square feet of sign area where the ordinance typically allows 40 square feet of sign area. Located on the building are three wall signs identifying the tenants. POAC Investments was requesting a PUD amendment to allow an additional monument sign to be located near the entrance of the Clinic to direct traffic into the parking lot. The proposed 5 -foot tall, 15 square foot internally illuminated sign would be located near the south east corner of the building adjacent to the shared parking lot. The clinic suggested the need for a sign because their patients were driving past the clinic. McRoberts asked if there was anything prohibiting them to park in another lot. The CDD said there was not. Jim Brumel from the Real Estate Department of Fairview Clinic said many of the patients who visit the Clinic have compromised physical conditions and the patients are parking too far away. They want to direct people to the parking lot closest to the Clinic. The Institute for Athletic Medicine is a separate entity and is asking for its own identification on the sign. Those patients are frequently seeking services for injuries.