Min - Board of Adjustment - 2009 - 10/05 - Special Calledf V�
CITY OF ALLEN
ATTENDANCE:
Board Members Present:
Gene Autrey
Joel Hemphill
Alexander Kirk
Barbara McNutt
Deborah Angell Smith
Todd Moore, Alternate
Thomas Wierzbicki, Alternate
Board Members Absent:
None
City Staff Present:
Ogden "Bo" Bass, Director
Kevin Laughlin, Attorney
Helen -Eve Liebman, Senior Planner
Tiffany McLeod, Planner
Workshop Agenda
SIGN CONTROL BOARD
Special Called Meeting
October 05, 2009
The workshop began at 6:12 p.m. An orientation and training was held for new and returning
board members. The meeting was adjourned at 7.10 p.m.
Regular Agenda
Call to Order and Announce a Quorum is Present:
With a quorum of the Board Members present, Deborah Angell Smith called the meeting to order
at 7.15 p.m. in the City Hall Council Conference Room at Allen City Hall, 305 Century
Parkway
Agenda Item 1: Election of Officers — Elect Chairman and First Vice -Chairman. The
elected officers will also serve on the Building Standards Committee
and the Board of Adjustment.
SIGN CONTROL BOARD
October 05, 2009
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MOTION: Upon a Motion by Board Member Smith, and a Second by Board Member
McNutt, the Board voted 5 FOR and 0 OPPOSED to elect Alexander Kirk as
Chairman. The motion carried.
MOTION: Upon a Motion by Board Member Smith, and a Second by Board Member
McNutt, the Board voted 5 FOR and 0 OPPOSED to elect Gene Autrey as
First Vice -Chairman. The motion carried.
Agenda Item 2: Approve minutes from the October 20, 2008 Sign Control Board
Meeting.
MOTION: Upon a Motion by First Vice Chairman Autrey, and a Second by Board
Member Smith, the Board voted 5 FOR and 0 OPPOSED to approve the
October 20, 2008 Sign Control Board Minutes. The motion carried.
Agenda Item 3: Public Hearing — Conduct a Public Hearing and consider a request for a
variance to increase the copy area and height of an existing pole sign. The
sign is located in the proximity of the FedEx office, at the Allen Tech Center
Addition shopping center, 715 S. Central Expressway.
Tiffany McLeod, Planner, presented the case to the Board. She described the request and the
location of the sign. The ordinance states that the Sign Control Board should consider the following
reasons for the variance: the effect on public safety, protection of neighborhood property, the degree
of hardship or injustice involved and the effect of the variance on the general plan for signing within
the City Staff does not believe that there are adequate reasons provided to justify a variance to
allow the existing sign to increase in copy area or height. There is not a significant hardship or
injustice involved and this request is contrary to the general plan for allowing signage in Allen.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of the requested variance.
Chairman Kirk opened the Public Hearing.
With no one wishing to speak, the Public Hearing was closed.
The applicant spoke to the Board. He stated that the reason the variance is being requested is
because the company has just been rebranded and the larger sign will promote the new image. In
addition, there have been problems with the overgrowth of trees blocking the sign.
MOTION: Upon a motion by Board Member Smith and a second by Board Member
McNutt, the Board voted 5 FOR 0 OPPOSED to DENY the request for a
variance to increase the copy area and height of an existing pole sign, located at 715 S.
Central Expressway. The Motion Carried.
SIGN CONTROL BOARD
October 05, 2009
Adjournment
Motion: The Board adjourned the Sign Board meeting at 7:50 p.m.
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These minutes approved this day of Mara r—� 2010.
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