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Properties in Sign District 5arepermitted a total of 80 square feet of wall signage. In multi- tenant buildings or sites, the permitted sign area may be installed by each individual business establishment that has some exclusive use of the primary level of the building. The applicant has requested 240 square feet of wall signage for the two cornerbays in the development, which each have three visible building façades.Each façade couldhave up to 80 square feet of signage. This total amount represents an additional 160 square feet than what is permitted in the Sign Code. Thecorner bayshave two façades eachmeasuring 38 feet and one 70-foot façade. The remaining eightsmaller retail bays would be allowed 115 square feet of signageeach, divided between up to 60 square feet on the west side facing the interior of the development and 55 square feet on the east side facing Lexington Avenue. This total amount represents an additional 35 square feet than what is permitted in the Sign Code. The smaller bays each have 20 feet of façade on either side of the building. As a point of comparison,staff reviewed the amount of wall signage currently installed at several retail baysin the Shannon Square development(Attachment C). Both the UPS Store and Subway occupy bays with façadelengths that are comparable to the smaller retail bays in the Lexington Station building. The UPS Store has a wall sign measuring 26 square feet and the Subway has a sign with an area of 48 square feet. The Caribou coffee shop is located in a corner storefront with an approximately 30-foot façadealong thenorthbuilding walland a 40-foot façadeon the east. This façade areais roughly half of the total façadeareaofthe two Lexington Station corner bays. Caribou has one 40 square foot sign on the north façade and one 40 square foot sign on the east façade. Seven blade signs are also proposed for the western building façade. The signs would be located between the smaller retail baysapproximately eight (8)feet above ground level. Each sign would have an area of four (4) square feet.Based on the proposal, it is unclear how the seven signs will be distributed between the eight small bays. This type of sign would be counted towards the allowed wall signage per tenant. Window Signage The sign plan includes non-branded window banner coatings on several of the window panes of the retail bays at the northern and southern end of the building.The applicant is currently working with potential tenants for these stores,buthas been unable to obtain specific plans for the windows. Generally, the window treatment would be semitransparent, graphic in form, and would not include any advertising for the stores(Attachment D). As the windowcoatings have been described to staff, they wouldnot be counted as window signageas long as no commercial branding, logos, or icons are included. The purpose of the window treatment is to cover those windows that will look onto food preparation and storage areas in the stores. City of Arden Hills Planning Commission Meeting for September 4, 2013 Page 4of 9