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- CITY OF ARDEN HILLS MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: October 25, 1999 Mayor and City Council , / Nancy Randall, ASSOCi~ Planning Case #99-20, Planned Unit Development Amendment Apache Group, 1787 Gateway Blvd. DATE: TO: FROM: Request. The petitioner is requesting approval of an amendment to the Planned Unit Development (PUD) to relocate the signage on the building located at 1787 Gateway Blvd. (Exhibit A), Background. July 14, 1997, the City Council approved Planning Case 97-06, PUD Master Plan and Final Plat (including variances), preliminary and final plat, and street vacation for the construction of three office/industrial buildings. (Exhibit B) e The Zoning Ordinance in Section V, K, 5, g, (1), requires that a sign plan be submitted in conjunction with site plans in the GB district that show the location, type, size, and design of the individual signs. When the plan was originally approved, two signs were shown at the entrance on the east side of the building. The Planning Commission memo for Planning Case 97-06, dated July 2, 1997, stated that each building would have one Identification Sign (free standing) and two Business Signs, which are 60 square feet in area, at each of the four entries to the building for a total of 480 square feet of signage on the building (60 sf x 2 signs x 4 entries) which is less than 10 percent of the building facade as required by the Sign Ordinance, Schedule VII, B, I, The applicant is requesting the ability to move one of the signs from the east entrance to the south side of the building. This would be a more visible location and customers would be able to see the sign from the public street. Staff recommends the applicant be allowed to keep the signage on either side of the entrances in addition to the proposed sign. The building would have a total of three signs, which is still under the number of signs on the other two buildings which have up to eight signs. This would give the applicant the ability to modify the signage without a PUD amendment in the future if the tenants changed. . This building, however, does not have four entries, thus the number of signs shown on the site plan were only two for the north east entrance. The applicant is willing to give up one of the signs at the entrance in lieu of the new proposed sign. Deadline for Agency Actions. The City of Arden Hills received the completed application for this request on Tuesday, September 7, 1999. Pursuant to Minnesota State Statute, the City must act on this request by Friday, November 5, 1999 (60 days), unless the City provides the petitioner with written reasons for an additional 60-day review