Planning Commission Minutes 2003 08 12

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Approved – September 18, 2003 come to the City with a Building Permit for a request to install 60-inch high letters. Martell ! presented a letter from BigLots and requested it be entered into record. McAvinew requested a motion. Pritchard moved and Robson seconded the motion to enter the letter into record. Motion passed with unanimous voice vote. Staff is recommending approval of Resolution No. 16, Series 2003 with three conditions: 1) All new store identification signs proposed for the former Kmart building are to limited to 36-inch high, individually lit, pan-channel letters. Business logos are to be included in this 36-inch limitation. 2) Two lines of sing text are permitted if the total of the two lines does not exceed the 36-inch letter height. 3) If a second, separate store entity is located within the anchor store, i.e. ! Hobby Lobby / BigLots, any sign letters proposed shall be reviewed and approved administratively by the Planning Department Staff and shall be limited to 12-inch high, individually lit, pan-channel letters, 5 inches deep. Business logos are to be included in this 12-inch limitation. Commission Questions: McAvinew asked why would this request apply to the entire Kmart building when Hobby Lobby is the applicant. Martell explained that the public notice was done to represent the entire building and not just a portion of the building. Debra Kalish asked who owns the building. Martell replied that Somerset Limited Partnership owns the building and they have signed the land use application giving their approval of the request. Kenneth Johnstone, Principal Planner, clarified for the Commission that the notice provided the legal description of the property and by including the entire building it avoids future applications with similar requests. ! Kalish asked if anything would prevent BigLots from coming forward with another request. Martell replied that it would not and that Staff is concerned with the numerous requests that are coming forward for larger signs. Many of the big box retails are wanting larger signs. He reminded the Commission that the original Kmart sign was for 618 SF and the requested Hobby Lobby sign is for 88.5 SF. Kalish asked Johnstone what the reasoning was for a 24-inch size limit in the CDDSG. Johnstone stated that it was to prevent sign letters from being taller than needed simply to fill in the SF maximum allowed. ! Scott Robson requested a clarification. If the 36-inch height is approved and the BigLots store accepts the height, then do they have to come forward with another sign amendment to the PUD. Martell replied that if the 36-inch height is approved it is being approved for the entire building that was once occupied by Kmart. Bill McDermott expressed concern that we need to identify the building as now two buildings and ! suggested Building A1 (Hobby Lobby) and Building A2 (BigLots). 3