HomeMy WebLinkAbout1-2-97 BA MinutesBOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
January 2,1997
City Council Chambers
A meeting of the Board of Adjustment was held on January 2, 1997 with the following members present:
Board Member Glenn Bodwin
Board Member Bob Harris
Board Member Mary Jowers
Board Member Chuck Mason
Board Members Absent: Board Member Dohn. LaBiche
Also present: Stephen Richardson, Planning Director; Murray Duren, Senior
Planner; Lane Nichols, City Attorney; Maria Trapp, Planning
Technician and Jill Cole, Recording Secretary.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Board Member Bodwin made a motion to approve the minutes of the December 5, 1996 Board
of Adjustment Public Hearing. Board Member Mason seconded the motion. Motion to approve
carried 4:0.
SWEARING IN OF WITNESSES
PUBLIC HEARING
1) File 393-BA: A request for variances to the UC (Urban Corridor) Overlay District sign
regulations of Section 30-23 to allow an attached owner identification sign, said sign exceeding
the square footage allowed and said sign installed at an angle and extending more than 18 inches
from the face of the building.
Location: 3120 Martin Luther King Parkway
Applicant: Bubba Ainsworth
Mr. Richardson told the Board that American Aluminum Distributors Company, located at 3 120
M. L. K. Parkway, wishes to construct an attached sign on the southeast part of the building.
The proposed sign would be attached to that portion of the warehouse with the two-story facade.
The sign would be a v-shaped, double faced sign at a 45 degree angle to the building. The sign
will not rise above the top of the facade. The sign, as proposed, would extend 11 feet out to
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
January 2, 1997
come even with the front of the one story section of the building. The ordinance allows an
attached sign to extend 18 inches from the building face. The proposed signs are each 200
square feet. The ordinance allows an attached sign equal to 10 percent of the wall area or 150
square feet, whichever is less.
Due to the widening of M.L.K. Parkway, the curb is 18 feet east of the eastern -most part of the
sign. Due to the angle of the roadway and the location of a house just to the north of the subject
property, it is difficult to see the business until the customer is almost up on the property. The
front of the two-story facade cannot be seen by the southbound traffic until a driver has already
passed the M.L.K./Shannon intersection. The speed limit on M.LK, at this point, is 45 mph.
The Planning Director recommended approval of the variances because the application meets
Conditions A, B and C.
Fourteen notices were sent to property owners within 200 feet of the subject property. No
responses in opposition and four in favor were returned.
Board Member Harris, acting as Chairman, opened the public hearing and asked for the
applicant's comments.
Bubba Ainsworth, the applicant, addressed the Board. He told the Board that his vendors and
customers have trouble finding his business.
In response to a question from Board Member Bodwin, Mr. Ainsworth said that the sign will
not project above the roof fine of the facade portion of the building and will not be illuminated.
Board Member Harris closed the public hearing.
Board Member Mason made a motion to approve the variance as requested in File 393-BA.
Board Member Jowers: seconded the motion. Motion to approve carried 4:0.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.
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