2018-58 Ordinance Amending PD Planned Development District Located at 1800 E. Lake Shore Drive - St. Mary's Hospital

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Excerpts from Plan Commission Meeting of October 4, 2018: Case No. 18-43 Petition of ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL, to amend the PD Planned Development District located at 1800 EAST LAKE SHORE DRIVE for additional signage. It was moved and seconded (Brinkoetter/Jeffery) to forward Case No. 18-43 to the City Council with a recommendation for approval as set forth in the staff report. Mrs. Stewart discussed and presented slides of the site and surrounding properties (available for viewing upon request) along with the recommendation of staff: The approximately 33-acre subject site currently contains St. Mary's Hospital, medical offices, and parking lots, essentially a hospital campus. The latest amendment occurred in February of 2018 to allow for the construction of a two-story medical office building addition and additional parking spaces in the southwestern portion of the hospital campus. The medical office building addition is currently under construction. The petitioner requests that the current PD Planned Development District be amended to allow for one (1) new two-sided monument style sign on the campus. No other changes to the previously approved development plan for the hospital campus are proposed. The proposed monument style sign will be ten (10) feet from the property line and nine feet and three inches (9'3") in height, containing essentially an Electronic Message Unit (EMU) that will be 45 square feet in area(5' x 9'). The proposed sign will be placed in the southwest part of the site,within the East Lake Shore Drive frontage, and will match the existing monument style sign with a stone base throughout the campus. Given the office campus character of this hospital campus, and to minimize procedures for future signage without compromising the integrity of the land use and zoning of the hospital campus, staff recommends any additional future signage be subject to sign regulations for the O-1 Office District. In doing so, no separate PD amendment petition would be necessary for considering new signage solely. This PD District amendment is consistent with the intent of the original PD District and the Comprehensive Plan. Based on the analysis, staff recommends approval of the proposed Amended PD Planned Development District with the following conditions: 1. The new permitted monument style sign shall not exceed nine feet and three inches (9'3") in height and may contain an Electronic Message Unit (EMU) no greater than forty-five (45) square feet in area with a stone base. 2. This permitted sign shall be setback no less than ten (10) feet from the property line along East Lake Shore Drive. 3. Sign permits will be required before any new signage is installed. 4. Except for the new monument style sign noted herein,all future signage for the hospital campus in the Planned Development (PD) District shall be subject to the sign regulations applicable to the O-1 Office District.