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Gerald Yegqe v. city of Clearwater
(DOAH Case No. 86-0016)
TIME
~ SERVICE (in hours) AMOUNT
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1-10-86 Initial Order .5 $l5.00
2-l8-8~ Notice of hearing .5 $15.00
4-l1-86 Preparation for hearing 1.0 $30.0,0
4-14-86 Travel to hearing 2.0 $60.00
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4-l4-86 Hearing time 1.0 $30.00
5-27 & Research, preparation
28-86 and completion of Final
Order 4.0 $l20.00
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TOTALS 9 $270.00
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identifying the business on the front of the building facing the
street. Also located on the southwest corner of the property is
a pole sign within one foot of the front property line. This
pole sign has existed for a number of years.
(2) Prior to October l3, 1985, the pole sign contained
language that the entire building was available for lease. Mr.
Yegge now wishes to change the message on the sign to indicate
both the carpet business now occupying a portion of the building
and to indicate that the remaining portion of the building is
available for lease.
(3) The property owned by Mr. Yegge is zoned as the
Urban center District, Eastern corridor (UC(E)). with certain
exceptions, pole signs within that district must be positioned at
least five feet back from all property lines. section 134.0l2,
Land Development Code. However, signs existing prior to the
effective date of the city's new sign regulations, October l3,
1985, are permitted to remain for a period of up to seven years,
after which time the sign must either be removed or be brought
into compliance with the new regulations.
(4) No nonconforming signs may be constructed,
reconstructed, altered, renovated, relocated, replaced or
otherwise changed after October 13, 1985, unless the change
brings the sign into conformance. Section 134.0l5, Land
Development Code. Unless otherwise exempt from the applicable
permitting requirements of the sign regulations, no sign may be
altered without first obtaining a sign permit. Changing the
message on a marquee or changeable copy sign board so designed
does not require a sign permit. Section l34.0l3(a) (1), Land
Development Code. A "changeable copy sign board" is defined in
Section 137.005 of the Land Development Code as:
"it. sign on which the message is changed
manually on the premises where the sign is
iocated through the utilization of attachable
letters, numbers, symbols and other similar
characters or, in the case of a billboard,
through the utilization of Changeable
pictoral panels."
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(5) The pole sign located on Mr. Ye9ge's property is
not designed to utilize attachable letters, symbols or other
similar characters.
In order to change the message on the sign,
it is neceasary to repaint the sign.
(6) If the subject pole sign were moved four feet back
from the front property line, it would be less visible from the
easterly direction and not visible at all from the westerly
direction due to the location of the buildings in the immediate
vicinity. Also, movement of the sign's location five feet from
the property line would reduce the number of parking spaces now
available.
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
Because Mr. Yegge's pole sign is located one foot from
the property line, it is a nonconforming sign which, until
altered, is a permittable use for a period of seven years from
October 13, 1985. He now wishes to alter or change the message
on the sign without bringing it into conformance with the City of
Clearwater1s sign regulations~ i.e., moving it back an additional
four feet. This he may not do without a variance approval. The
subject sign is not designed to utilize attachable symbols and it
is not a billboard with changeable pictoral panels.
It thus is
not exempt from the City'S permitting requirements as a
changeable copy sign board.
In order to be entitled to a variance from the
provisions of the Land Development code, the burden is upon the
applicant to demonstrate, inter alia, that the strict application
of the Code would result in an unnecessary hardship upon the
applicant and that the condition from which the variance is
sought is unique to the applicant's property. Also, the request
for a variance may not be based primarily upon the desire of the
applicant to secure a greater financial return from the property
and the granting of a variance must not violate the general
spirit and intent of the Code. Section l37.0l2(d), Land
Development Code.
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