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M PLANNING REPORT DATE: CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: LOCATION: ACTION REQUESTED: PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: lil 2 January 19845 1568-84 M. T. Realty Corporation Northeast of Intersection of Trunk Highway 36 and I-35W (see sketch) Approval of Sign Variance 1. The property in question is the Mother Tucker's Restaurant site located northeasterly of the service road, contiguous to the interchange of Trunk Highway 36 and I-35W. This site development as you will recall, is zoned B-lB, and was approved for a special use permit for site plan approval several months ago. The restaurant is now substantially complete and open on a limited basis. You will recall that this site was initially purchased by the Mother Tucker people about three years ago and then was expanded to include an area of land formerly owned by Long Cadillac. The restaurant is one of the larger restaurants in Roseville, and is a Class I full service facility. 2. Being zoned B-lB, the site is allowed a pylon sign of 100 square feet if located contiguous to a freeway, with a height of 25 feet. Wherever a site is contiguous to a frontage road, contiguous to a freeway (or an interchange of a freeway), it is considered fronting on a freeway. If the site were zoned B-2 or B-3, contiguous to a freeway, the sign could be 225 square feet with a height of 45 feet. The reason the pylon sign square footage area was restricted to 100 square feet in the B-lB District versus 225 square feet in the B-2 or B-3 District is that the B-1B District was originally designed to primarily apply to the land across the highway from the residences on the old Gluek Farm No. 2 property, west of Fairview, north of Highway 36. The B-1B District also included provisions for site plan approval, and required three percent of the parking area to be landscaped. This was done primarily to offer protection to the residences across the highway to the south (Gluek Lane and others). 3. When inquiring about allowable sign size, the applicants were under the impression that the 225 square foot and 45 foot height criteria would apply to their site. The Building Inspector informs us that this misunderstanding did in fact occur. Therefore, they ordered a pylon sign which has approximately 167 square feet and a height of 40 feet. The sign was on site at the time this discrepancy was discovered and the Building Inspector allowed them to construct it, with the understanding that if a variance is not approved, that it would have to be removed.