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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 8 May 1991 CASE NUMBER: 2197 APPLICANT: George C. Brandt, Inc. LOCATION: 2975 Long Lake Road (see sketch) ACTION REQUESTED: variance Ordinance to zoning PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. BACKGROUND As you may recall, this was an application at the March 13 Planning commission meeting for an "after the fact" sign variance to approve the location where the applicants have already installed their sign. Since an accurate site plan was not submitted, we considered the application incomplete. Nevertheless, it was our opinion, based on the information we had, that a variance was not justified. Mr. Brandt did not attend the Planning commission meeting, but the variance request was denied and passed on to the City Council at their March 25 meeting. Mr. Brandt appeared before the Council. The Council agreed that a complete site plan is needed before the application was reviewed. They gave Mr. Brandt the option of either having his current application denied, or returning to the Planning commissin with a site plan and appropriate information to support his assertion of a visibility hardship. He agreed to this, and the item was referred back to the Planning commission. In the meantime, City Staff has met with Mr. Brandt asking him to supply us with more detailed information to support the variance. He expressed uncertainty as to how to prepare an accurate site plan and other information, so we offered to assist him in gathering the necessary materials. We suggested he take photographs at measured locations on Long Lake Road so that accurate site lines could be drawn on a map. This he did, but the photos were taken from the curb line, therefore they did not accurately represent the view a driver would have from the street. We went to the site and took additional photographs to assist Mr. Brandt in visualizing the situation and assembled existing City base information (the section map