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When the Southwest. Everett Comprehensive Plan was <br />completed in 1982, this 3.8 acre site was designated <br />Neighborhood Business. The site was subsequently rezoned <br />from R-3, Multiple Family Residential to Neighborhood <br />Business with Contract in 1984. The conceptual site plan <br />approved at that time shows a unified neighborhood <br />business project on the southern portion of the site (see <br />Exhibit. 10). The owner has now subdivided the southern <br />portion of the sloe and so there will be commercial <br />activities on two parcels. Therefore, signage will need <br />to be provided for two parcels instead of consolidnted <br />signage for one parcel as originally anticipated. <br />The B-1 zone allows wall signs and projecting signs up to <br />a maximum of 30 feet for each separate business <br />establishment.. Pole signs to 30 square feet in area are <br />permitted only for a multi -tenanted building, and so the <br />Arco AM/PM facility does not qualify for a pole sign. <br />The purpose of the B-1 zone is to provide retail business <br />and services serving primarily the residents of the <br />surrounding neighborhood. The City contends that the 30 <br />square feet of signage permitted in the B-1 zone is <br />adequate to identify the business to the neighborhood <br />using the facility, and that larger advertising signs are <br />not appropriate in this zone. A sign larger than <br />permitted in the B-1 zone may tend to attract customers <br />from outside the immediate neighborhood and would <br />therefore not meet the intent and purpose of the B-1 zone. <br />There is an additional 1.15 acre area of the 3.8 acre <br />site that. permits B-1 uses, and as that portion of the <br />site develops, additional signs will be needed to <br />identify those businesses. If variances are granted as <br />the Applicant is requesting, It would set a precedent for <br />additional requests for variance in this B-1 zone, which, <br />if granted, would not be appropriate adjacent to a <br />residential zone. <br />There is another B-1 zone approximately one -quarter of a <br />mile to the east. on Casino Road and Hardeson. That site <br />has been developed as a small shopping center and is <br />functioning without a variance from the sign code. <br />b. Conclusion: There are no exceptional or extraordinary circumstances <br />or conditions applying to the subject property or use <br />thereof that would warrant the granting of a sign <br />variance. <br />Criterion No. 2: That such variance is necessary for the preservation and <br />enjoyment of a substantial property right of the <br />appellant possessed by the owners of other properties in <br />the same vicinity or zone. <br />a. Finding: There is another B-1 zone on Casino and Hardeson Road and <br />they have not requested any sign variance. In two other <br />cases recently, the Board of Adjustment did grant sign <br />variances in B-1 zones; however, both of those were for <br />property located on busy arterial streets directly across <br />from B-2 zoned areas with no zoning restrictions on the <br />signing. This site is surrounded with residentially <br />developed property. The nearest. commercial activity is <br />1/4 mile to the east. <br />-2- <br />