CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Option A: Concur with the petitioner and the Planning and Zoning Commission and pass the ordinance approving a variance to allow a non-conforming pole sign located at 311 E. Ogden Avenue to be renovated - PZC 20-1-046; or
Option B: Concur with staff and deny the request for a variance to allow a non-conforming pole sign located at 311 E. Ogden Avenue to be renovated - PZC 20-1-046
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Gabrielle Mattingly, Community Planner
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
The Planning and Zoning Commission considered the variance request on July 15, 2020 and voted to recommend approval of the requested variance (Approved 7-2). Staff disagrees and recommends denial of the variance for the reasons outlined below.
BACKGROUND:
Located north of Ogden Avenue, east of Brainard Street, the subject property has a common address of 311 E. Ogden and is located within the boundaries of the East Ogden Avenue Corridor. The East Ogden Avenue Corridor is defined as Ogden Avenue from Washington Street east to the City's eastern boundary. The lot is currently improved with a car wash and is zoned B3 (General Commercial District). The petitioner, Karen Dodge, is requesting a variance to the nonconforming sign regulations in order to alter an existing nonconforming pole sign.
DISCUSSION:
The petitioner is requesting approval of a variance to the nonconforming sign regulations to allow alterations to the existing pole sign. At present, the pole sign is located on a landscape island at the corner of E Ogden Avenue and N Brainard Street. The pole sign is approximately 19' 6" tall. The sign cabinet is 80 square feet in size and the petitioner desires to replace the sign cabinet with the same size sign.
The proposed pole sign does not comply with the sign code requirements on several fronts. Pole signs are defined as a type of ground sign which is supported by a pole structure extend...
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