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FILt WOf> 30/2 3 January 2005 Payii 4 of 5 Addilioiuilly, Section 78-916 stales that a enndilional use permit may lie revocable, may be granted for a limited time, or may be granted snbjeci to such conditions as the eonneil may prescribe; and a conditional use permit shall remain in effect as long as the conditions agreed upon are observed, but nothing in this section shall prevent the city from enacting or amending official controls to change the status of conditional uses; and a cerlirted copy of any conditional use permit shall be filed with the county recor<ler or registrar of titles. The conditional use permit shall include the legal description of the properly included. Sign Size Variance The Orono sign ordinance docs not address the needs of institutional uses within residential /.ones, (’urrenlly the .school has a campus sign perpendicular to Highway 12 in front of the tennis courts. The exi.sting sign is approximately 41 s.f. total area and contains a manual readei board. 'file applicant has piopo.scd a monument sign approximately 9’ high and 11’ wide. The propo.scd sign meets City Code Section 78-1466(11) regarding monument signs, fhe propo.sed sign copy area .S6 s.f. with a 30 s.f .static electronic rcaderboard. The applicant has indicated that this rcaderboard is to be changed no more frcc|uently than once daily and its purpo.se is to provide parents and students with relevant school information, 'fhe electronic readerboard will eliminate the need for .sending a student or staff member out to the sign to physically change the me.s.sagc on the sign and will be more functional for the .school. As proposed the static elecironie readerboard is not considered a "lla.shing illuminated sign" which is not allowed. Ilanlsiiip Stalemnil Applicant has completed the llard.ship Dociinientation I’orni attached as Hxliibit H, and should be asked for additional le.slimony regarding the application. Ilardsliip Aiinlysi.s /»• cflitsMcrhif! applications for variance, the Ptannln/i Coinmluion shall consider the effect of the proposed variance nprn the health, safety and welfare of the community, existing and anticipated traffic conditions, light and air, danger of fire, risk to the public safef)’, and the effect on values of property In the surrounding area. The Planning Commission shall consider recommending approval for variances from the literal provisions of the /oning t 'ode in instances where their strict enforcement would cause undue hardship because of circumstances unique to the individual property under consider„tion, and shall recommend appioval only when it is demonstrated that such actions will he in keeping with the spit it and intent of the Orono /oning ('ode. Slalt finds that ollcn the needs ol the institutional u.scs within the icsidcntial districts are not met under the enrrent sign rci’.nlalions. Variances have been cmisistently granted for the dilferent sig.ii needs for the v.irying institutional u.scs within the ( *ity of Orono in the past, and perhaps this is indicative of the need to update the codes with respect to in.stitutional u.scs within ic.sidcntial /.ones. ■iI i