this is the time in the place for the meeting at the board of appeals we are here to respond to applications for construction zoning variances in our special exceptions housing in dangerous structures as board must try to interpret each application as relates to city ordinances th board is not empowered to rezone or to take any action that could be considered rezoning variances must meet for crucial test or to be granted those of you who are here for a variance have answered already answered questions about the tests on your application will be asking you about those answers again tonight this is the procedure we follow we ask that you come to the microphone to speak and state your name and address we will hear the applicant first and anyone supporting their application then anyone in opposition to it typically will hold the public hearing an application and then deliberate decide on the application before moving on to the next application you're welcome to stay for the deliberations but there is no opportunity for further public comment if you like not to stay for a deliberation decision you can call the city clerk sherburne owner of property at seven hundred michigan avenue is requesting a variance to install a new freestanding sign or relocate an existing freestanding sign free standing signs are not permitted in this the one zone district however i have found out since the the time the notice was published freestanding signs are permitted in the stone districts but they are very limited in size and height the maximum height would be five feet in the maximum size would be twenty five feet thank you is there an app can't hear tonight i'd like to speak on behalf of the application could you please come to the microphone and state your name and address for the record sure my name sherburne the owner escapes pharmacy a seven hundred michigan avenue i've been doing some extensive run of ation work on the building to try to bring it into this century i've made it into a multi tenant building and the other tenants would like to have exposure on michigan avenue to keep their businesses healthy we have sign there that was removed in two thousand and one when we granted some additional room for a per cut when the road was redone and also the sidewalks realigned has had the effect of pushing the sign very close to our building there's thirty three inches between the edge of the sign and the building you can't even get scaffolding between the sign and the building  we'd like to move it forty eight feet south into a new peninsula that i created that we're going to landscape to give it a little bit more air or space around the sign we're trying to keep the size to the absolute minimum that the architect and the representative from midwest sign felt was necessary to maintain legibility we're also proposing to do a sign that keeps with the art deco nature of the front of the building with the rounded columns that sign is going to be almost twice as much as just a boring rectangular sign but i would like to mimic the architecture of the building as much as possible ok you have any questions for the board do you mind if we ask questions of you not really i guess as i mentioned in the letter you know my biggest concern is that we words own c two commercial initially and there was a rezoning against my wishes i had sent a letter and in december of two is there anybody here to speak in support of that occasion and cindy can you please read the letter that was sent in support i'm not going to read the whole question because it's rather lengthy but it was in a letter in support of the application for a variance for a variety of reasons including visibility and legibility churn that's available for anyone to review if they sorcha ok there's nobody else in the audience to know is due to unique circumstances or conditions of the property based on its its size the location of the building adjacent to the roadway the fact that the roadway was so widened previously by the city not not at the request of the applicant and that has created this the need for this variance also i believe that it is not self created the need actually came from the fact that the city did some road whitening back in two thousand and one i do believe strict compliance with the regulations regarding the the sign would would route would unreasonably prevent him from from using the property for a permitted purpose simply that the same requirements that the city has for this own district simply would not work i can imagine any sign that would fall within the requirements of the city would be able to be effective in this in this location i do believe that this is the minimum relief necessary he's not asking for it an incredibly large sign he's asking for sign i think that fits very well with the neighborhood it's about approximately the same size as that the sign that he currently has i believe it's also in a better better location and i have not seen any evidence that there would be any investor ever sent back to the surrounding property property values or the use and enjoyment of the property in the neighboring or zoning in the neighborhood is only district well thank you mr box i would like to call for