Minutes - Planning Commission - 09/04/2008

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The remaining Findings shall be renumbered accordingly. Motion Carried. Voting Yes: Acting Chairperson Levine, Commissioners Van Scoy, Cleveland, Brauer, Hunt, and Rogers. Voting No: None. Absent: Chairperson Nixt. Motion by Commissioner Van Scoy, seconded by Commissioner Cleveland, to recommend that City Council grant approval of the Conditional Use Permit based on the amended findings of fact, declaring terms of the same, and amending condition #5 as follows: 5. That no dog under the ownership ofthe Permittee shall be allowed to run at large, and at all times the dogs shall be physically controlled by either a permanent or temporary confinement area or on a leash. Motion Carried. Voting Yes: Acting Chairperson Levine, Commissioners Van Scoy, Cleveland, Brauer, Cleveland, Hunt, and Rogers. Voting No: None. Absent: Chairperson Nixt. Ms. Lynette Randall again appeared before the Planning Commission and requested clarification regarding the number of dogs permitted. She asked if the CUP would be in effect if at some point in the future she has only three dogs on the property. Associate Planner Gladhill replied if she has only three dogs on the property; she can cancel the CUP and the containment restrictions would no longer apply. Case #2: Public Hearing - Request for a Conditional Use Permit to Exceed Sign Size Restrictions; Case of PSD, LLC Chairperson Nixt closed the regular portion of the Planning Commission meeting at 7:52 p.m. in order to call the public hearing to order. Public Hearine: Chairperson Nixt called the public hearing to order at 7:52 p.m. Presentation Assistant Community Development Director Frolik stated the City received an application from PSD, LLC requesting a conditional use permit to exceed sign size restrictions for the Ramsey Office Plaza building located at 7533 Sunwood Drive N.W. She indicated the Town Center district sign regulations are much more restrictive than those for the general Business and Employment districts throughout the community and explained that buildings in Town Center are allowed one wall sign per street frontage and the size limit on the sign is 5% of the area of the ground level fayade or 24 square feet, whichever is less. She stated this compares to 15% of the area of the entire building fayade, not just ground level, in the City's other business districts, or 25% of the area of the entire building fayade is using channel levels. She indicated the applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to install two more wall signs on the north and south Planning Commission/September 4, 2008 Page 6 of 12