Cond. Use Permit-Rocky Roccoco-Locate a Sign in a Lesser Setback• January 17, 1985
Case No: 85 -04
Applicant: Lawrence Signs for Rocky Roccoco
Location: 502 North Blake Road
Request:- Conditional Use Permit to locate a sign in a lesser setback
STAFF FINDINGS & COMMENTS: Anderson
1. Applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit to locate a sign in a lesser
setback than required. The subject site is located at 502 North Blake Road,
the current site of Rocky Roccoco. The site is zoned B -3.
2. Ordinance 427.42(15) requires for other proposed sign permits not prohibited
by Section No. 409 and involving a lesser setback than that required by the
Hopkins Zoning Ordinance may be granted only by and under a Conditional Use
Permit as defined in Section 427.04(26) and under the applicable provisions
and regulations of Conditional Use requirements set forth in Section 427.26 of
the Hopkins Zoning Ordinance which Conditional Use Permits may require periodic
reviews and may be cancalled for cause.
3. Ordinance 427.35 requires a 20 foot setback for a front yard abutting a County
Road in a B -3 District. The applicant is proposing to have approximately a
10 foot setback.
4. The proposed sign is to replace the current sign which is located in the entrance/
exit on the north side of the property. The current sign is 1002 square feet.
5. The proposed sign is to be 96 square feet and will be approximately 20 to 25 feet
maximum in height depending on the actual site survey.
6. The location of the proposed sign is on the south side of the site.
7. The proposed sign will be dark green, light green, red, brown and white in color.
The sign will be made of Dupont Imron.
8. The site is currently being renovated and upgraded. The applicant is also pro -
posing to replace two directional signs and also the menu sign.
9. The applicant stated that the existing sign is in the driveway and is a potential
safety hazard. The existing sign is non - conforming because it has a lesser set -
back than required.
10. Most of the surrounding signs along Blake Road are also non - conforming since the
widening of Blake Road.
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. & FEDERAL
SIGN
Division Federal Signal Corporation
January 11, 1985
Mr. Richard Hill
Hopkins City Hall
1010 First Street
Hopkins, Minnesota 55343
Dear Mr. Hill;
Enclosed is the information for the Rocky Rococo Restau-
rant located at 502 N. Blake Rd. I have included the plot
plan, the new front elevation and xerox copies of photos
showing all the signs presently at that location.
In scaling the photos of the sign it appears to be 9'
wide, 10' high with overall height of 25'. The sign and
reader board total 90 sq. ft per side. This DOES NOT
include the "drive thru" sign, which appears to be approxi-
mately 1 112' to 2' X 7' long, or a minimum of 10 112
sq. ft. per side, a total of 100 112 sq. ft. per side.
The standard Rocky Rococo sign I am proposing has 96 sq.
ft. per side and will be 20' to 25' maximum height de-
pending on actual site survey. We don't want the sign
to be blocked by existing signs. I am sending a drawing
of the 20' high sign for your records. (This sign was
built for another location.) Because of the short time
frame we did not have time to do a special drawing for
Hopkins.
You will note the location of the existing sign is in
the driveway and we feel this location causes a potential
safety hazzard. Extensive time and money is being spent
to renovate and upgrade this location aestetically. We
strongly feel that moving the sign location will improve
the appearance of the site and remove a potential safety
hazzard.
We would like to replace the directional signs also with
the new Rocky Rococo directional signs (enclosed) and the
new menu sign (enclosed) .
510 EAST BURLEIGH STREET, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 53212 (414) 374 -7400
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I hope this will give you the necessary information to file
for the Conditional Use Permit. If you need further infor-
mation and material please call collect.
Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
i
Jan Gri gg
Account Executive
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Encls.
CC: Mr. Mike Gifford
Lawrence Signs, Inc.
945 Pierce Butler Route
St. Paul, MN 55104
CC: Mr. Tom Rutlin
Rocky Rococo Corporation
340 W. Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 53703
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