Variance-Sign from James Justus0 October 24, 1984
To: I Zoning and Planning Commission
From: Nancy Anderson.
Subject: Variance for sign from James Justus
The applicant is returning with his request for a variance to
exceed the allowable square footage for signage. The Commission asked
the applicant.to revise his request based on closer conformance to the
Ordinance and consideration of fronting on County Road 3. The applicant
has reduced the size of the four signs that were shown previously to ex-
ceed the maximum area of a single sign to under 250 square feet. The
revised plan as presented would have no sign exceeding 250 square feet.
The applicant has reduced the total square footage from 2367 square feet
to 1765 square feet. A variance of 530 total square feet is being re-
quested. The applicant has argued that because 11th Avenue South is used
as the front that ,a considerable amount of sign allowance is lot, if
County Road 3 were used as the front he would have enough square footage
for the proposed signs.
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A SQUARE DEAL
US T US LUMBERIC0 . Telephone: 938 -2741
330 ELEVENTH AVENUE SOUTH • HOPKINS, MINNESOTA 55343
October 17, 1984
City of Hopkins
Subject: Revised sign variance request for Justus Lumber Company
Dear Sirs:
I am requesting that Justus Lumber Company be allowed 1765 Sq.Ft. of
building and pylon road signs. This revised request exceeds the exist-
ing allowance of 1235 Sq.Ft. by 530 Sq.Ft. with no individual sign
exceeding 250 Sq.Ft. This is a reduction of our previous request
for 2367 Sq.Ft. with four signs exceeding 250 Sq.Ft.
Please note that Justus Lumber Company looses a considerable amount
of sign allowance, due to the fact 11th Ave. So. is our mailing
address and used as the major road to calculate our allowance. In
• reality, our company faces County Road 3, which we consider our front,
and seems to be the logical road to be used for the calculations. If
County Road 3 was used for major road considerations, we would be
allowed 1838 square feet, more than what we're requesting.
We need large lettering because of our set back from County Road 3,
and the competition we get from Amoco and Country Kitchen signs. The
following are the present calculations as per ordinance, calculation
using County Road 3 as the major road and size of signs we want to use:
Ordinance
399' 11th Ave S.x4 Sq
Ft
= 1596
600`Cty Road ' 3 xl Sq
Ft
= 600
2196
Less Amoco /C.K.
961
1235
Alternative
399' 11th Ave S.xl Sq
Ft =
399
600' Cty Road 3 x4 Sq
Ft =
2400
2 961
• Less Amoco /C.K.
961
1838
"THE COMPLETE BUILDING CENTER"
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JUSTU REVISED SIGN SIZES
10
FRONT
Justus Lumber
Do -It Center
STORE SIDES
The Friendly Ones
7x17
Lumber Hardware
5x41
WAREHOUSE
Justus (No)
8x24
Justus (So)
8x24
NEON EAST (Existing)
PYLON SIGN Cty Rd #3 (2 Sides)
250
200
119
205
192
192
159
448
1765
Thank you for your consideration.
Yours truly,
JUSTUS LUMBER COMP
James A. Justus
Vice President
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