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Item 10CCity of Southlake Department of Planning STAFF REPORT April 14, 2004 CASE NO SP 04 -065 PROJECT: Sleep Experts REQUEST: Variance to the Sign Ordinance No. 704 -A. ACTION NEEDED: Consider variance request. ATTACHMENTS: (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) Background Information Vicinity Map Site Plan Building Elevation & Sign Detail Sign Variance Application Supporting Photos STAFF CONTACT: Dennis Killough (481 -2073) Bruce Payne (481 -2036) Case No. SP 04 -065 BACKGROUND INFORMATION OWNER/APPLICANT: Sleep Experts PROPERTY SITUATION: Sleep Experts is located in the Cornerstone Plaza development on the south side of E. Southlake Blvd next to the Ultimate Electronics site. The property address is 2757 E. Southlake Blvd, Suite 120. REQUEST: The applicant is proposing an attached sign on the north and east sides of the building. The proposed signs will have a letter height greater than permitted under the Sign Ordinance No. 407 -A. Approval of a variance is required in order to receive a building permit for this sign. STAFF COMMENTS: The sign criteria, building elevations, site plan and applications are attached to this report. The following regulations for the Variance have been proposed for Sleep Experts: • Ord. 704 -A, Section 16.A.2 N[AXD" LETTER/LOGO HEIGHT The maximum permitted letter height is 12 inches for a sign less than 100 feet from the right -of -way. The store front is approximately 90 feet from the right -of -way. The maximum letter size permitted is 12 inches. The applicant is requesting a letter height of 24 inches. The City Council may authorize variances in accordance with the following provision of the Sign Ordinance No. 704 -A, Section 14, Variances: The City Council may authorize variances to any restriction set forth in this ordinance, including but not limited to the number, type, area, height, or setback of signs, or any other aspect involved in the sign permitting process. In granting any variance, the City Council shall determine that a literal enforcement of the sign regulations will create an unnecessary hardship or a practical difficulty on the applicant, that the situation causing the unnecessary hardship or practical difficulty is unique to the affected property and is not self- imposed, that the variance will not injure and will be wholly compatible with the use and permitted development of adjacent properties, and that the granting of the variance will be in harmony with the spirit and purpose of this sign ordinance. A person may request a variance from the Sign Ordinance by filing the request with the Building Official. Any request for variance shall be accompanied by a completed application and a non - refundable filing fee in the amount specified in the current fee schedule adopted by City Council. N: \Community Development \WP - FILES \MEMO \SIGNS \SPO4 -065 Sleep Experts.doc Case No. SP 04 -065 Attachment A Page 1 Vicinity Map Sleep Experts 14 s,� xr � p1C14 �j `{ F n r�� I r - I �,- — ILDLI 1000 0 1000 2000 3000 Feet R► Case No. Attachment B SP 04 -065 Page 1 b � o 0 c v, i b � CfQ � �-- n ..� 'il :� -_ ��:�� � ��� Demonstration Please demonstrate that the following conditions are applicable to the requested sign variance: 1 ' That a literal enforcement of the sign regulation will crate an unnecessary hardship or practical difficulty on the applicant VIq - MS , s+rzP�t �S L rn,lb, '+C . OOC 4�u'5;/)tSS i5 cLr- ,evi �LJ gL-r.Mj-,r SS V � n� � 5"".0-0 +V--e- G wYC +- 2 • That the situation causing the unnecessary hardship or practical difficulty is unique to the affected property and is not self imposed. C,, -k S E:r�'rlc� K lG tf'lr�, ru bc `� 3, That the variance will not injure and will be wholly compatible with the use and permitted development of adjacent properties. we_ woutck � :ke "k*- n;5na5e ee. :uC�l .t �V 41r%C. CV_� &n V ^4�c, fr tr,,: 1 bJS,ne_SSCS 4 • That the variance will be in harmony with the spirit and purpose of the sign ordinance. w e_ '�CJ� e v c- v use & 'vn, - r w Cq -✓ C4 � C,r\c �r - l.ln e- W �AAn -N-L r t.iC�h boor 0Y �� : n e_.S.5C S . Case No. Attachment E SP 04 -065 Page 1 View traveling west with permitted 12 -inch letters Case No. SP 04 -065 Attachment F Page 1 Cron Area- 47 79^ - 4 n 79^ ,.