Springdale Commission Tables Sign Request

Springdale Auto Auction Seeks Variance To Add Storage Lot

SPRINGDALE --A business' second sign on a major-intersection corner lot will have to wait after the Planning Commission tabled a variance request Tuesday.

Owners of Everett Chrysler Dodge requested a variance for a second sign at their dealership to go on Don Tyson Parkway. The business is on the southeast corner of the intersection of Thompson Street and the parkway. Only one sign per lot is allowed for a business, according to city code.

At A Glance

Commission Action

Springdale’s Planning Commission met Tuesday and approved:

• A conditional use of automobile sales on property zoned general commercial at 1220 E. Robinson Ave. owned by Roger Anglin for prospective owner Blake Harris

• Rezoning of 8.1 acres from agricultural to institutional at 100 S. Gutensohn St. owned by First Untied Presbyterian Church to reflect the current use; of 1.9 acres from general commercial to light industrial at 1906 Lowell Road owned by AMW Technology; of 1.6 acres from agricultural to general commercial for propertyon southwest corner of Old Missouri Road and Palisades Avenue owned by Fishing Bridge Investments for construction of commercial or office space

Source: Staff Report

Joel Kelsey, commission chairman, asked if a drawing of the sign could be submitted so commissioners could get an idea of what it would look like.

"One picture is worth a thousand words to me," Kelsey said. "I can understand that a lot better than a description of a monument sign that is no taller than 8 feet."

The owners want a sign that points customers to their body shop, said Rick Evans, an Everett employee and also a city alderman. A sign on a building would be removed and replaced by a monument sign directing customers to the entrance to the shop, he said.

The visibility of the driveway is blocked by a dealership building on a parkway curve, Evans said.

Commissioners said they hated to add more signs to the intersection.

The Thompson and parkway intersection is one of the cleanest in the city, said Kevin Parsley, commissioner.

"I agree that I'd hate to see it junked up," Parsley said.

A city ordinance allows only monument signs on Don Tyson Parkway. Evans proposed an ordinance in April allowing a second sign on corner lots of major intersections. The council decided to leave sign ordinance as it is, requiring commission approval for a variance.

The commission also approved a development for 71B Auto Auction. The business, which holds an auction once a week, is expanding its space to store cars. The business is at the northeast corner of Thompson Street and Wagon Wheel Road.

Owner Bryan Hunt said the business was expanding its vehicle storage by about 50 percent on 6 to 8 acres. The new parking or storage area is on the northeast corner of the property, he said.

The plan didn't include variances for parking lot landscaping, said Clayton Sedberry, planning coordinator.

Company representatives will come back with a revision to change the addition to a storage lot with a screening fence or ask for variances, said Tom Oppenheim, with CEI Engineering. CEI is designing the addition.

The variance would ask additional landscaping along Thompson Street and Wagon Wheel Road be substituted for landscaping in the lot, Oppenheim said

"We are already installing landscaping where it would do the most good," Hunt said. "Nobody would see the landscaping in the back since it's not a public lot."

NW News on 06/04/2014

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