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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC86043 - 12/11/86 - Parkway Circle & Shingle Creek Pkwy`.. \..i PLANNING COMIl MSION FILE CHECKLIST File Purge Date: FILE INFORMATION Planning Commission Application No. 644"V 3 PROPERTY INFORMATION Zoning: PLAN REFERENCE Note: If a plan was found in the file during the purge process, it was pulled for consolidation of all plans. Identified below are the types of plans, if any, that were consolidated. • Site Plans • Building Plans • Other: FILE REFERENCE Note: The following documents were purged when this project file became inactive. We have recorded the information necessary to retrieve the documents. Document Type Date Range Location Agenda Cover Sheet: Planning Commission Agenda Book Minutes: Planning Commission Minutes: City Council Resolutions: Planning Commission Resolutions: City Council Ordinances: City Council �,?/" City Vault zllzL/�� City Vault City Vault City Vault City Vault Historical Photographs: Planning Commission City Archieve CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER PLANNING COMMISSION APPLICATION Application No. 86043 Please Print Clearly or Type Street Location of Property Parkway Circle & Shingle Creek Pkwy. (2 locations) -.- Legal Description of Property Tract Q , RLS 1572 Owner Lombard Properties, Inc. Address 6601 Shingle Creek Parkway. Suite # 200 Phone No.(612 ) 566-8022 Applicant Lombard Properties, Inc. Address 6601 Shingle Creek Parkway, Suite # 200 Type of Request: Rezoning X_ Variance Special Use Permit Phone No. (612 ) 566-8022 Subdivision Approval Site & Bldg. Plan Approval Other: Description of Request: Approval of 2 Directional signs with addresses of other 1:2roperties within the P.U.D. (Planned Unit. Development)- addresses are of the jroperty these directionals are located upon and others they are not located upon. The applicant requests processing of this application and agrees to pay to the City of Brooklyn Center, within fifteen (15) days after mailing or delivery of the billing state- ment, the actual costs incurred by the City for Engineering, Planning and Legal expenses reasonably and necessarily required by the City for the processing of the application. Such costs shall be in addition to the application fee described herein. Withdrawal of the application shall not relieve the applicant of the obligation to pay costs incurred prior to withdrawal. Fee $ s0.00 Receipt No. 72873 Steve 'Mosbo Applicant's Signature Director of Deve opment Date: _November 25, 1986 PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION Dates of P.C. Consideration: Approved Denied this day of 19 subject to the following conditions: rman CITY COUNCIL ACTION Dates of Council Consideration: Approved T Denied this c�cP---day of 19 with the following amendment: P/I Form No. 18 (over please) Planning Commission Information Sheet Application No. 86043 Applicant: Lombard Properties Location: 6601 Shingle Creek Parkway Request: Sign Variance The applicant requests a variance from the Sign Ordinance to erect two off -site directional signs at the intersections of Shingle Creek Parkway and Parkway Circle. Parkway Circle is a private road within the Shingle Creek Business Center commercial/industrial complex being developed by Lombard Properties north of Freeway Boulevard and west of Shingle Creek Parkway. The complex includes the Ramada Inn, RCM Plaza and Parkway Place office/high tech buildings, and the Shingle Creek Eleven (Metro Systems et al) speculative industrial building. The property in questions is zoned I-1 (Light Industrial) and is bounded by the Spec. 9 industrial building and the MTC bus garage on the north, by Shingle Creek Parkway on the east, by Freeway Boulevard on the south, and by the Shingle Creek greenstrip on the west. The signs themselves would be located at the north and south intersections of Shingle Creek Parkway and Parkway Circle. Mr. Steve Mosborg with Lombard Properties has submitted a brief introductory letter (attached) explaining Lombard's sign program for the Shingle Creek Business Center. He has also submitted a letter addressing the standards for a Sign Variance for the two off -site directional signs at the entrances to Parkway Circle. Mr. Mosborg notes that the proposed directional signs are not permitted under the Sign Ordinance because they contain references to buildings on other parcels within the development and are, thus, off -site signs. Signs located off -site are generally classified as billboards under the Sign Ordinance (see definition attached) and are prohibited. Mr. Mosborg points out that the signs would not have building names, but addresses only. He states that the proposed directional signs are essential to "the smooth and informed flow of traffic" within the business center. He further argues that the signs should also help avoid congestion and confusion in the public streets. Proposed variances are subject to the standards contained in Section 34-180 (attached). The first standard relates to hardship. One hardship staff see in this case is the inability of some properties in the development (namely RCM Plaza and the future development tract north of the Ramada Inn) to gain any exposure onto a public street. This does create some difficulty for people in search of these properties. The second standard for a variance is that the conditions upon which the application for a variance is based are unique to the property in question and are not common to other property or uses in the zoning district. The circumstances in this case are fairly unique. Most businesses in the city are located on parcels which have direct access onto a public street. A somewhat similar situation exists at the Brooklyn Crossing office park. In that case, however, the large office building at County Road 10 and Brooklyn Boulevard does have frontage and exposure onto a public street. The smaller buildings, meanwhile, are all on a single parcel of land and are to be served by a similar on -site directional sign with the addresses of each building listed on the sign. The CEAP building at 7231 Brooklyn Boulevard is also similarly situated behind the Red Lobster restaurant. However, in that case, the CEAP property does extend along the private drive (known as CEAP Way) to Brooklyn Boulevard and there is a freestanding identification sign for CEAP on Brooklyn 12-11-86 1- Application No. 86043 continued Boulevard. What is proposed in this case serves a similar function. The only difference is that the off -site buildings in this case are on separate parcels that do not abut public right-of-way. Other cases that involve off -site directional signs are the Brookdale Ford sign on the Brookdale Square site and the Cinema I, II, III, IV entrance sign on the site of the Brookdale Six office building. Both these cases also involve developments that rely on other properties for access. The third standard for a sign variance is that the granting of the variance will not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to other property or improvements in the neighborhood. Staff believe that the proposed directional signery would be much more appropriate and tolerable to the neighborhood than high freestanding identification signs located on the respective sites and seeking to appeal, over the roofs of buildings, to traffic on the public streets. To accomplish the same exposure such signs might well require height and/or size variances and would, we think, detract from the visual appearance of the industrial park. Accordingly, we recommend approval of the variance request, subject to the following conditions: 1. No freestanding identification sign for an off -site property listed on the directional signs located at the intersections of Parkway Circle and Shingle Creek Parkway may be readily visible from the public streets. 2. The applicant shall install street signs denoting Parkway Circle and Shingle Creek Parkway that are consistent with the City's street signs at the two intersections in question prior to release of the financial guarantee for Parkway Place (6601 Shingle Creek Parkway). 3. The message of the directional signs shall be clearly directional in nature and subject to the height and size requirements of the Sign Ordinance. Variance approval pertains to location only. 12-11-86 -2- SHINGLE CREEK BUSINESS CENTER DIRECTIONAL SIGNAGE VARIANCE REQUEST Lombard Properties, along with their consultant, Sign Consultants, Inc., is requesting a variance to allow the installation of two (2) directional signs at the two (2) corners of Shingle Creek Parkway Circle. Following is the information to support our variance request. Under the current ordinance, directional signs are allowed without a permit as long as they are located on the property they are identifying and are within certain size allowances. The directionals that are proposed fall within these guidelines except that they provide directional information for more than one unit within the development. Therefore, they not only provide a directional message for the property on which they are located but also other units within the PUD development that are not on the same property as the sign. However, the information on each of the two directional signs is street address only. These addresses include the principal buildings within the PUD as follows: Parkway Place --the property on which the signs are located, RCM Plaza, Ramada Hotel and a future office/warehouse building located on Parkway Circle. These two (2) proposed directionals will be the only guide to these locations. The two (2) proposed directional signs are essential to the smooth and informed flow of traffic within the PUD and will also create better traffic flow on the main arteries. Lack of adequate and pertinent directional signing can lead to congestion and confusion on the part of vehicles seeking units within the PUD. Experience has shown that lack of adequate directional signing will have a significant impact on the public attitudes and satisfaction while using businesses and services within the PUD. Rather than being detrimental to public welfare, the proposed directional signs will contribute significantly to public welfare. LOMBARD PROPERTIES' INC. INTRODUCTION Shingle Creek Business Center is the first "Planned Unit Development," "PUD," with a mixed use in the City of Brooklyn Center. Because the current sign ordinances do not address the specific needs for a PUD mixed -use development, Lombard Properties, the developer, has retained Sign Consultants, Inc. to assist them. Sign Consultants has been given the responsibility to design and source a complete integrated graphic sign system for the Shingle Creek Business Center PUD. This system consists of developing not only signage but a sign criteria that will maintain the aesthetic value of the sign graphic package for now and into the future. Presently, a sampling of the new graphic package is in place which meets with the existing sign ordinances. However, there are additional requirements which are not addressed in the current ordinances. One of these requirements is for placement of two (2) directional signs and the other is for the incorporation of a project identification sign. LOMBARD PROPERTIES INC. rt znzqNr Yiew - �71 5CALCII IAV-11-04 W 6-�- TO MTk I L, 1/017) F"t;F- TO MIA L T/OM FI.JM C� Z E 0 x x a \:«�k /� P••k.ry �---�-