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Theodore Brausen, Case No. 2392 page 3 District is only 7% of the building facade. However, with a rezoning to PUD for a service station, it was our assumption that the B-3 standards were the reasonable standards to apply. Dale street County Road B West Facades South Facades Total Total Facade 2,110 sq. ft. 1,990 sq. ft. 4,100 sq. ft. 10% A11owed* 211 sq. ft. 199 sq. ft. 410 sq. ft. Approved PUD** 200 sq. ft. 108 sq. ft. 308 sq. ft. with New sign 272 sq. ft. 108 sq. ft. 380 sq. ft. * Total signage allowed, including both faces of a pylon, in the B-3 District, is 10% of the building facade facing a street frontage ** Assumes one face of the pylon sign is assigned to each street frontage The proposed sign would add 72 square feet to the west facade, which would put it over the 10% standard. Overall, the project would still have less than the 10% allowed for both facades combined. For the north building by itself, the results are similar: North Building/West Facade 10% Allowed Signage Approved PUD with New Sign 1,360 sq. ft. 136 sq. ft. 92 sq. ft. 164 sq. ft. Mr. Brausen notes in his letter that the proposed sign is "in the guidelines of my signage ordinance". If he is referring to the sign ordinance standards in an underlying B-3 District, the numbers do not fully support this statement. As noted above, the added sign would not make the project exceed a total of 10% (410 sq. ft.) for the entire site, but it would exceed the 10% for the west facade (211 sq. ft.), which is the way the ordinance formula is written - by each street frontage. We have interpreted the ordinance in some other cases to allow the combining of two street frontages for sign area purposes. In an approved PUD, however, the guidelines that apply are the approved PUD plans and not the underlying district. The ordinance was consulted to arrive at a reasonable plan which was approved, but Mr. Brausen does not now have a right to every square foot allowed by ordinance once he has requested a PUD.