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Page 2 of 9 Horizon Academy to provide onsite childcare to their employees. Since 2020, New Horizon Academy has seen a decline in enrollment with many campus employees continuing to work full-time from home. As a result, the two parties have agreed to allow for open enrollment of childcare services to non-employees. The Applicant is seeking flexibility to install an additional single-tenant freestanding sign along Lexington Avenue in order to advertise their childcare facility to the community. As part of this application, the existing monument sign along County Road F will be refaced to include the New Horizon Academy name and updated Land O’Lakes logo. No other changes are proposed to existing signage that was approved in 2018 as part of the Master Sign Plan. 2. Master Sign Plan Background In 2018, the City Council approved Planning Case #18-027—a Sign Standard Adjustment for a deviation from the sign code to increase the permitted size of the freestanding monument and auxiliary signs on the Subject Property. The Master Sign Plan includes four (4) auxiliary signs. Two (2) auxiliary signs are located internal to the corporate campus and two (2) are located at the far eastern and western access points adjacent to County Road F. The Applicant is not proposing any changes to the auxiliary signs as part of this application. Then there are two (2) approved monument signs that are located along abutting roadways (i.e. County Road F and Lexington Avenue). Under the Master Sign Plan, the Subject Property is allowed two freestanding monument signs each with a total sign area of up to 60 square feet and a sign copy area not to exceed 22.5 square feet. Flexibility was also granted to allow up to 25 square feet of auxiliary/directional signage on both monuments that is not to be deducted from the maximum sign copy area allowed. Additionally, all freestanding signs on the Subject Property are to be externally illuminated. For clarification between these two terms, “sign area” is defined as the area encompassing the sign face and sign structure, whereas “sign copy area” is defined as the area around the words or graphics on the sign. 3. Existing Conditions The Applicant, New Horizon Academy, is located in Building C on the Subject Property shown below which is part of the Land O’Lakes Corporate Headquarters. There are three buildings on the corporate campus. The Subject Property is located in the I-1 Zoning District and is part of Sign District 6. Sign District 6 allows for freestanding signs with a maximum sign copy area of 45 square feet. All of the Sign Districts allow an additional freestanding sign on properties abutting more than one public street. If that were the case, each additional freestanding sign may not exceed half the size of the maximum sign area allowed for a freestanding sign in the underlying sign district. For the Subject Property, the maximum sign copy area allowed for an additional freestanding sign would be 22.5 square feet. All of the auxiliary and freestanding signs as approved under the 2018 Master Sign Plan have been installed on the Subject Property. As part of this sign proposal, the Applicant is requesting to install a second nonilluminated freestanding monument sign along Lexington Avenue with up