HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-3168-J Staff ReportFile No.: Z-3168-J
Owners: Rock Creek Housing. LLC
Applicant: Lora Rand, Arkansas Sign and Neon
Address: 420 Napa Valley Drive
Legal Description: PT NW NW BEG 50’S OF NW COR E1345’ 5610’ TO WLN NW TH N520’ TO POB EXC 3.20 AC MOL FOR R/W (DEED 95-04128) SECTION 4-1N-13W.
Zoned: MF18 – Multi-Family
Present Use: Apartment Development
Proposed Use: Apartment Development
Variance(s)Requested: The sign provisions of Sec.36-552 permit a ground mounted monument sign to exceed the allowable square footage.
Justification: The applicant’s justification is presented as per the attached letter.
STAFF REPORT
Planning and Development Civil Engineering Comments:
No Comments
B. Buffering and Landscape Comments:
No Comments
C. Building Codes Comments:
No Comments
D. Staff Analysis:
The property at 420 Napa Valley Drive is currently occupied by a 9-structure apartment complex with paved parking and a paved access drive connecting to Napa Valley Drive to the north.
The applicant is requesting a variance to allow the existing ground-mounted monument sign to be increased in height and area. The proposed sign is to be twelve (12) foot high, four
(4) foot long, and twenty (20) inches wide, at approximately forty-
eight (48) square foot. The new sign will include a twenty-two (22) square foot stone base structure.
Section 36-552 (a) (3) “Signs permitted in Multi-Family Zones” of the City’s Zoning
Ordinance requires that all apartment or condominium identification signs are not
to exceed twenty-four (24) feet in sign area. Therefore, the applicant is requesting
a variance to allow a ground mounted apartment identification sign to increase in
square footage from twenty-four (24) square feet to seventy (70) square feet in
area.
Staff supports the request to allow the increase in the area and height of a ground-mounted sign along Napa Valley Drive. Staff believes that the requested variance is appropriate for
the vehicular-oriented area surrounding the site.
E. Staff Recommendation:
Staff recommend approval of the requested ground-mounted sign variance.