Case Number:
A-15-124
Applicant:
Greg Burkett
Owner:
Frontier Enterprises
Council District:|13
13|Location:
902 NE Loop 410
Legal Description:
Lot 4, Block 1, NCB 11893
Zoning:
"C-2 AHOD" Commercial Airport Hazard Overlay District
Prepared By:
Margaret Pahl AICP, Senior Planner
Request
A request for a 1) 12.5 foot variance from the maximum 37.5 foot sign height, as described in 28-241, to allow a sign that is 50 feet tall and 2) a 37 square foot variance from the 281.75 square foot sign area limitation, as described in 28-241, to allow the secondary sign on the property to be 318 square feet in area.
Executive Summary
The subject property is located at 902 N.E. Loop 410 in a mixed use commercial center built in the late 1950's. The 6.45 acre site includes more than 85,000 square feet of tenant space in 5 different buildings. Most of the developed square footage (82%) has been office, which is often less reliant on signage. The Magic Time Machine restaurant, opened and operating since 1973, is the only business that currently has a free standing pole sign. The Magic Time Machine Sign was built according to the allowances for a single-tenant sign with frontage on a freeway. Another restaurant has recently opened in the center and an additional one is currently under construction. For this reason, the applicant is seeking to add a multi-tenant pole sign, with room for the two new restaurants and other businesses in the center on the new sign. Because the property is one lot, multiple signs are regulated differently. Additional signs are allowed with a 75% reduction in both height and area, and spaced a minimum 150 feet apart. The large property has almost 700 linear feet frontage along the Loop 410, with the Magic Time Machine Restaurant at the east edge. The applicant is hoping to construct the new multi-tenant sign at the allowed height and square footage for a primary multi-tenant sign, rather than reducing it to 75% of the allowance. To facilitate t...
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