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6. The proposed sign is eight feet in height. <br />7. The property currently contains one sign on Brunes Street. The applicant is <br />requesting an additional sign for the corner of Brunes and West Grove Street. <br />They are allowed two free standing signs. <br />8. The applicant is requesting a CUP for a reader board that is specifically not <br />allowed in Section 17- 7.1(4)(C). The applicant has submitted a sign concept plan. <br />9. The request for the additional sign/reader board is to allow the Farmers Insurance <br />Company a sign that advertises to customers in the bank drive -thru. <br />10. There have not been any alternatives to the sign request submitted. <br />11. The subject property is in a Commercial District. <br />12. The applicant has indicated the sign will be aesthetically pleasing and landscaping <br />will be provided around the sign. <br />13. The requested reader board is specifically for Famers Insurance to advertise to the <br />drive -thru bank customers. The effectiveness is for bank customers only. <br />14. A free standing sign is allowed within the Commercial District. A flashing or <br />revolving sign is not allowed. <br />15. The Comprehensive Plan does not specifically address this request but allows for <br />the use of commercial development within the City. <br />16. The use of the sign, with conditions, would be compatible with the existing <br />neighborhood in that there are other similar signs, albeit without the reader board, <br />within the same district. <br />17. The proposed use, with conditions, would not be injurious to the public health, <br />safety, welfare, decency, order, comfort, convenience, appearance or prosperity of <br />the City in that the reader board is only visible via drive -thru customers and not to <br />drivers on the streets. <br />18. The proposed use will not impair values nor substantially diminish properties in <br />the immediate vicinity. <br />19. The proposed use, with conditions, will not impede the normal and orderly <br />development and improvement of surrounding vacant properties. <br />20. The proposed sign will not create a cost for additional public facilities or services. <br />21 The lot is already established with vehicular approaches to the property. The sign <br />will be facing one of the approaches. <br />22. There is no need for additional parking with the request of a sign. <br />23. The requested sign will not create any odor, fumes, dust, noise or vibration. The <br />applicants have indicated the lights on the sign will be turned off at the end of <br />business hours. <br />24. There are no indications that the proposed use will cause any pollution to ground <br />or surface waters <br />Subject to the following conditions: <br />1. The sign shall sit at roughly a 45 degree angle to the streets and shall be <br />positioned so the reader board would not be visible from the adjacent streets. <br />2. When bank is closed, the reader board shall be turned off. <br />3. If lit, the sign shall be back lit. Lights shall be downward directional and shall be <br />turned off after hours. <br />111-� All members voted "aye ". Motion carried. <br />Minutes 8 <br />Pequot Lakes Planning Commission <br />September 17, 2009 <br />