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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 12 June 1991 CASE NUMBER: 2263 APPLICANT: Robert Pounds Welsh companies, Inc. LOCATION: Crossroads Shopping Center, 1655 West County Road B-2 (see sketch) ACTION REQUESTED: Special Use Additional signs Permit for Directional PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. BACKGROUND Welsh Companies has applied for a Special Use Permit for additional directional signs at the Crossroads Shopping Center. At the May Planning Commission meeting, the applicant requested a continuance to work with their sign consultant and city Staff on the details of placement and design. As you may recall from our previous report, Center faces two separate but related stemming from the recent expansion of the houses Best Buy and Rainbow Foods. Getting can be difficult, and getting around the appropriate parking area can be confusing. to solve both problems with signage. the Crossroads issues, both Center which into the site site to the Their hope was The first issue, getting into the site, is faced by drivers travelling east on county Road B-2 who want to get to either Best Buy or Rainbow. They need to turn left at American street, but at that point, the largest sign is the pylon sign for the theaters, which still bears the name "Pavilion Place", not "Crossroads". A driver cannot see either Best Buy or Rainbow clearly, or may think there is another opportunity further east to turn into the parking lot in front of the two stores, but there is no such opportunity. East of American street there is a concrete median in B-2 preventing left turns. A patron would have to travel a good distance east of Snelling before finding an opportunity to turn around and retrace his/her steps. Signage on the Center site might not be able to solve this dilemma. We discussed this with Mr. Pounds of Welsh Companies, and suggested that he contact the County to try