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SITE CHARACTERISTICS Location: 500 Main Street Lot Size: 3.9 Acres (169,426 SF) Topography: Generally Flat Comprehensive Plan Designation: City Center Zoning: B-4, Downtown Business District Surrounding Land Uses: North: Main Street Village Apartment/Condominium South: County RD E2—Donatelle Plastics East: Main Street (private road) — Main Street Village commercial uses West: Railroad tracks—NB Public Works garage SPECIAL USE PERMIT ANALYSIS Section 9-041 (4) outlines the procedure for obtaining approval or amendment of a Comprehensive Sign Plan. This section requires the following findings (staff responses in italics): A. That the sign plan provides sound identification, reduction of clutter, and aesthetic enhancement. The proposed graphic area and height of the new ground sign is comparable to what is allowed in a general business district(B-3). The sign will provide identification for CU Companies and other major tenants housed within 500 & 550 Main Street. 500 & 550 Main Street are technically two buildings and are located on a corner lot, allowing for two monument signs under the general sign code standards. The applicant explains that the additional ground sign is necessary to obtain the wanted visibility and to clarify the location of all tenants within 500 & 550 Main Street. Also worth noting, because Main Street is a private street the setback to the property line does not really apply as the property line is the centerline of the private road. However, the proposed new monument sign is setback an equal distance from the centerline of the road as the existing monument sign. The proposed wall signage locations are consistent with the existing Comprehensive Sign Plan, which allows signage at the upper levels in the corner of the facades and above the main entrances of the buildings. Additionally, the size sign for the non-logo signs (28 SF) is also consistent with the current sign plan. However, the applicant wishes to allow logo signs varying from 4.5 SF to 9 SF, where the current sign plan only allows an additional 5.75 SF for logos. The applicant has proposed two different logo sign variations, one with a 4.5 SF logo and one with a 9 SF logo. Even though one variation logo size is double the square footage of the other, this is fairly insignificant when viewed two stories up. Staff finds the request to be reasonable based on the following: 1) The proposed monument sign is no larger than the existing monument, 2) The monument provides identification for tenants of two buildings that reside on a corner lot, 3) the proposed monument sign setback is consistent with the existing monument sign's setback, 4) the