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Item # 14.

Work Session and Regular Meeting

Meeting Date:	04/09/2019
Department:	Public Works

AGENDA CAPTION:

Present, Discuss, and Consider Action on an Ordinance Granting a Meritorious Exception for Cinco Mexican Kitchen and Cafe 67, Located at 5000 Belt Line Road, Suite 850, from the Code of Ordinances, Chapter 62 Section 62-162. - Premises Signs, in Order to Permit a Second Sign for One Tenant on the North Facade.

BACKGROUND:

Cinco Mexican Kitchen is located at 5000 Belt Line Road, Suite 850. The business recently amended their Special Use Permit to add an additional restaurant concept, Café 67, within their existing space. The two concepts utilize one kitchen and operate under one certificate of occupancy and one food service license.

In an effort to distinguish the two concepts, the restaurant owner added signage for the second concept to the exterior of the building. However, because the Town’s Sign Code limits each business to one sign per façade, the new sign had to be located close enough to the existing sign to be considered as one sign while remaining under the maximum square footage requirements of the Code.

The Sign Code, Chapter 62 of the Code of Ordinances, regulates attached signage as follows:

Section 62-162. – Premises signs.
(c) There shall be only one sign for each facade for each tenant.

Since opening the second concept, business has been slow and, based on patron feedback, the applicant believes that moving the two names further apart would help to better distinguish that they are two separate restaurant concepts. This results in two signs for one tenant on the same façade.

The applicant is requesting a meritorious exception to allow two signs on the North façade.

RECOMMENDATION:

Administration recommends denial.

Attachments
Ordinance - Meritorious Exception Cinco Mexican Kitchen and Cafe 67
Cinco Mexican Kitchen & Cafe 67 Meritorious Exception Application