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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 13 November, 1991 CASE NUMBER: 2333 APPLICANT: Mike Platt/Discus Corp. Fuddruckers Restaurant LOCATION: 2740 snelling Avenue N. ACTION REQUESTED: sign variance PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. BACKGROUND Fuddruckers is located on the Snelling Avenue frontage road in the northeast quadrant of Snelling and County Road C. When the restaurant was built, the land south and west of the frontage road was still vacant MnDOT right-of-way, reserved for a potential interchange, and being public right-of-way, the owners of Fuddruckers had reason to believe it would stay vacant. Their pylon sign was visible from both Snelling and County Road C. Since that time, however, the vacant right-of-way has been turned back to private use and several businesses have been built there: Slumberland, Investors Savings, Olive Garden, and Roseville Community Bank. The Slumberland and Investors buildings block visibility of the existing pylon sign and the applicant is requesting a variance to the sign ordinance to allow a new sign to be erected that can be seen from Snelling and County Road Cover these buildings. This request was before the Planning Commission at the September meeting, at which time it was continued pending consideration of revisions to the sign ordinance. A suggestion made at the Planning commission, and followed up by Councilman Maschka in a memo to the community Development staff, was to talk to all the affected property owners in this area to see if a solution to this visibility problem, such as common signage, might be developed. A letter was sent to each of the businesses in the area, followed up with a phone call. This survey found little interest in common signage, particularly if it means that businesses would be required to give up the signage they currently have. The results are summarized in the attached memo from Rick Jopke to craig Waldron.