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File No.: Z-5694-A
Owners: Back Home BBQ, LLC
Applicant: Adam Murray – Back Home BBQ, LLC
Address: 801 West Markham Street
Legal Description: City of Little Rock East 50’ of North 26 6’ of 11 & East 50’ of 12 140.
Zoned: UU - Urban Use District
Present Use: Vacant
Proposed Use: Restaurant
Variance(s) Requested: The sign regulations of Sec. 36-553 to allow a wall mounted sign without street frontage.
The sign regulations of Sec. 36-553 to allow a wall mounted sign to exceed the allowable area of a façade.
Justification: The applicant’s justification is presented as per the attached letter.
STAFF REPORT
Planning and Development Civil Engineering Comments:
No Comments
Buffering and Landscape Comments:
No Comments.
Building Codes Comments:
No Comment
Staff Analysis:
The property at 801 West Markham Street is currently occupied by a vacant 2-story masonry structure and is located in a predominantly Urban Use (UU) zoned area at the southwest corner
of State Street and West Markham Street intersection. The
structure faces West Markham Street and extends south along State Street.
The applicant proposes to add new wall mounted projecting and painted signs (images) upon the existing structure on the north, east, and west facades of the building. The building has
street frontage on West Markham Street to the north and State Street to the east which allows signage in an Urban Use zoning.
The applicant proposes that the painted signs (images) on the east façade and the west non-street frontage facade of the structure will both be approximately 378-square foot in area
and will occupy approximately 16-percent of the 2,349-square foot total wall area without street frontage.
Section 36-553 (a) (3) “Where a building is on a corner or has more than one (1) main street frontage, one (1) wall sign and one (1) additional freestanding sign will be allowed on the
additional frontage, not to exceed the size of the other wall and freestanding signs.” Therefore, the applicant is requesting an additional wall mounted sign on the west non-street
frontage façade of the structure.
Section 36-553 (a) (2) (a), “Wall or Mansard signs not to exceed ten (10) percent in aggregate sign area for that occupancy’s façade area.” Therefore, the applicant is requesting painted
wall signs (images) which exceed the allowable area of the east and west facades aggregate square footage.
Staff is supportive of the requested variances. Staff views the requests as reasonable. The proposed painted wall signs (images) on the east and west building facades will be visible
by traffic on West Markham Street and will aid in identifying the business with no adverse impact on the adjacent properties.
Staff Recommendation:
Staff recommends approval of the requested variance to allow a painted wall sign without street frontage, subject to the descriptions and any conditions contained in
the “staff analysis” and the staff report.