Item 10CCity of Southlake
Department of Planning
STAFF REPORT
June 1, 2005
CASE NO
SP 05 -125
PROJECT: Conditional Sign Permit for East Southlake No. 1, Ltd.
REQUEST: Conditional Sign Permit for East Southlake No. 1, Ltd. The tenant is located at 900
E. Southlake Boulevard. This conditional sign permit is to allow an attached sign on
E. Southlake Boulevard for building tenants that do not have frontage on E.
Southlake Boulevard. One attached sign is permitted per tenant per street frontage.
The specific variance would allow four additional signs on the building fronting E.
Southlake Boulevard and is as follows:
Sign Reg. Permitted Requested
Number of Signs 1 sign per street frontage 5 signs
ACTION NEEDED: Consider variance request.
ATTACHMENTS: (A) Background Information
(B) Vicinity Map
(C) Site Plan
(D) Building Elevation & Sign Detail
(E) Sign Variance Application
STAFF CONTACT: Dennis Killough (748 -8072)
Ken Baker (748 -8067)
Case No.
SP 05 -125
Attachment A
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
OWNER/APPLICANT: Angelo Mendez, M.D., for East Southlake No. 1, Ltd.
PROPERTY SITUATION: The property is located at 900 East Southlake Boulevard, immediately east of
the Foxborough subdivision.
REQUEST: The applicant is requesting to allow signs on the south facade facing E.
Southlake Boulevard for lease spaces that do not have street frontage on E.
Southlake Boulevard. The applicant is proposing one sign per individual
tenant, for a total of no more than five signs on the south side of the building
facing E. Southlake Boulevard.
STAFF COMMENTS: The sign criteria, building elevations, site plan and applications are attached
to this report. The following conditions are requested:
• Ord. 704 -13, Section 16.A.4 NUMBER OF SIGNS one sign per
individual tenant, for a total of no more than five signs on the south side
of the building facing E. Southlake Boulevard.
Only one attached sign per lease space is allowed along each street
frontage. Only one lease space has a facade facing E. Southlake Blvd.
The City Council may authorize a Conditional Sign Permit in accordance
with the following provisions of the Sign Ordinance No. 704 -B, Section 6,
Conditional Sign Permit:
GENERAL: Notwithstanding anything in this ordinance to the contrary, the
erection of a sign or signs may be approved pursuant to this section under a
conditional sign permit approved by the City Council. The purpose of this
section is to allow for a specialized review of signs which may not be
appropriate generally without certain restrictions, but which, if controlled as
to the number, size, height, color, location, lighting, or relation to adjacent
properties, would promote the health, safety, and welfare of the community.
Conditional permitting of signs shall not be based upon the content of the
sign, but is intended to allow for the evaluation of the physical impact of the
proposed sign on adjacent properties and to ensure adequate mitigation of
potentially unfavorable factors, such as the number, size, height, color,
location, lighting, and other potentially unfavorable impacts.
COUNCIL ACTION: Consider conditional sign permit request.
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Vicinity Map
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All signage to conform to City of Southlake Sign Ordinance with respect to size, illumination and number of signs per tenant. The sole exception
to the ordinance will be that up to five tenants at any one time may each display an attached sign at any one of the specific facade locations facing
Southlake Blvd. where marked below, regardless of whether the tenants' interior spaces adjoin the facade plane containing their signage.
Locations 1 & 5: Sign areas to be no greater than 9 s.f. each (1'x9' area shown below)
Locations 2 & 4: Sign areas to be no greater than 19.5 s,f, each (1'x19.5' area shown below)
Location 3: Sign area to be no greater than 17.25 s.f. (1'x17.25' area shown below)
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Sign Variance Application
Demonstration
Pipam da mcmist that the following candi'ilbrra are appricable to the regue sign
I . That a literal enforDemeat cif the sign regulation -odI erale an unnecessary hardship or
pr .,al dlfElcu on the appk*rrl.
The sign ardinanoe allows for attached signage for each lease space, but only where the lase
space fronts a street or access drive. The intem2al 161ye4rt Configuration of the lease spies
within thin, building offers only one lease space fronting Souffilake Blvd. This prevents any
other lenants the oppurlunity lo adequately advertise and identity their place cif business with
tralder►nar'ked loges 81or larger lettering &or illuminati opti that are incampatible with the
existing monument sign. The result is ecor'rorriic hardships to the lessor Jliniiti�d appeal to
potenNal tenants) and to eventual tenants (limited exposure to tmf'fic along Southiske Blvd_)_
2_ That tiie dw2s , ca sk sg the urinKessary hudshlp or per+ 6nI di fiauy is uANue to rho
The shore ear 11w kt t (rr arinw Vleet frontag dictmted the Shape of the bUIMLI -no, wmlch dictated
the intemal layout of the tenant spaces. The result is that the tenant spaces are gaJparated with,
interior walls running east -west, meaning that all but one tenant's pnrn.ary s.ignage will race
adjoining commercial and residential properties.
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Granting this variance for the Conditional Sign Permit will have no adverse effect -ore adjacent
Mperties. In fact, granting this variance will arguably benefit adjacent properties (including
residerrtial lots on the north side) by diverting idurninatied signage away from their sight lines..
4 That tam Vaftw* W4 be a q tam"PenywiII M'ps spirit and purp€,se of the s%n orOvwrm.
Aside "rn the "lease space frontage" issue, the proposed attached sgnage locations and
sizes (see attached) cofltofm fully the existing sign ardinance. All signage wil I be
exclusivaly for terlaints holding Certificates of Occupancy and conducting Wnaride business
operations within the building. Upon approval -of this Variance. It will be the ovv discretion
as to which tenants will be granted signage display space along the suet frontage.
Rcviwd. Jammy 6. 2004
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Attachment E
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