Special Exception - Properties located 323 St Louis St, 325 St. Louis St, 327 St. Louis St, 618 Madison and 336 Hill St Repealing Resolution 4104-11

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4 monument style signs with the fencing. The two monument signs would be placed at an angle at the northeast corner of St. Louis Street and LaSalle Avenue and at the northwest corner of Notre Dame Avenue and LaSalle Avenue. The Petitioner's representatives had discussions with the Building Department staff on the proposed signage for the school site. Based on those discussions, the monument signs as shown, would require a few variances. The City's Ordinance limits the size of the signs for institutional uses in a SF2 Residential District to one monument sign per street frontage, with a height of 4 ft. and a sign area of 32 square feet. The existing school site could have a maximum of four (4) monument signs, one for each street frontage. They are asking instead, to place only two signs at what they consider are their main entrances to the school campus at St. Louis/LaSalle and Notre Dame/LaSalle. More specifically, the Petitioners are requesting the following: 1) . A Variance from the maximum allowed 32 square foot for a monument sign to a maximum of 51 square foot for each of two proposed monument signs as shown. As mentioned above, the School site can have four (4) monument signs with a total sign display area of 128 sq.ft. They are asking instead to be allowed to have only two (2) monument signs with a total of 102 sq.ft. , 51 sq.ft. each. As shown the signs are very simple in design and compliment the ornamental fencing of which they are a part. They Petitioners do not believe this request for the proposed monument signs would have a detrimental affect on any adjacent property. The second request for the signage is to request a Variance from the maximum allowed 4 ft. height for monument signs to a maximum of seven (7) foot height for each of the two proposed monument signs as shown. The Petitioners are asking to be allowed to have two monument signs, which have a maximum height of 7 ft. This height works with the proposed ornamental fencing and would give the Petitioners an area at the base of each sign to add landscaping consisting of shrubs and seasonal plantings. The Petitioners do not believe the signs would be out of scale at the proposed corner locations. They do not believe approval for this Variance would have a negative impact on surrounding properties or their values. In regards to Parcel "B", the location of an off-site parking area, the Petitioners are asking for approval of several Variances. This off-site parking area was an original parking lot for the old St. Joseph Hospital. It had been in existence for the past few decades. When the Diocese purchased the property back in 2011, the existing parking lot was a grandfathered use and allowed to be used for school parking. The Area Board of Zoning Appeals and the City Council approved a Special Use for the parking lot. At the time, no Variances were required as the parking lot was in existence and no improvements were planned.