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Permit 86-47-APP - KAISER DEVELOPMENT - SIGN APPEAL
Mr. Gerry Kirkpatrick
Kaiser Development
300 Lakeside Drive
Oakland, CA 94643
Dear Mr. Kirkpatrick:
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City of Tukwila
6200 Southcenter Boulevard
Tukwila Washington 98188
(206) 433 -1800
Gary L. VanDusen, Mayor
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October 3, 1986
Subject: Gateway Corporate Center 86 -47 -APP
The Board of Adjustment heard your application for an sign appeal on October 2,
1986 and approved with conditions your request for a freestanding sign.
The conditions of approval are:
1. The reveal shall be 6" wide.
2. The reveal shall be the same color as the copy (white) and extend
around the sign.
3. At no time shall the area below the reveal be used as a sign.
Per Tukwila Municipal Code 19.12.040, the action of the Board shall be
final unless, within 40 days of the Board's action, the applicant or an
aggrieved party makes an application to the Superior Court of King County
for a writ of certiorari, a writ of prohibition or a writ of mandamus.
If you have any questions, please call me at 433 -1847.
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Sincerely,
Jack Pace
Senior Planner
City of Tukwila
6200 Southcenter Boulevard
Tukwila Washington 98188
(206) 433 -1800
Gary L. VanDusen, Mayor
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Minutes for the Board of Adjustment meeting of October 2, 1986.
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m.
Members present were Mrs. Hernandez, Mrs. Regel, Mr. Nesheim, Mr. Goe and
Ms. Altmayer. Representing staff were Jack Pace and Kathy Stetson.
Approval of the minutes was postponed until the end of the evening's
meeting.
86 -47 -APP: Kaiser Development, appealing staff's interpretation of the
City's Sign Code definition for sign area and background area.
Mr. Pace summarized the Staff Report.
Mr. Goe asked about the support structure, any existing foliage at the
site, the size and location of the "break" in the face of the sign, and the
possibility of reducing the size of the skirting.
Ms. Altmayer inquired if the skirting should be included in the calculation
of the area of the sign face.
Ms. Hernandez asked if the sign code limits the size of a sign base.
Jerry Kirkpatrick, Kaiser Development, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA,
explained the need for the sign, the location requested, and the reason for
requesting the skirting.
Joe Kazenza, Kaiser Development, explained his interpretation of
TMC 19.08.040.
Mr. Goe asked the size of the reveal as shown in Exhibit 1. (photos)
Ms. Altmayer asked about the height of the sign and suggested lowering it
and camouflaging the support posts with foliage.
Mr. Goe suggested changing the color of the skirting or decreasing its size
by insetting the support posts.
Mr. Kazenza stated that the structural integrity of the sign would be
decreased if the skirting area was inset. He said that a change of color
would be acceptable.
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Ms. Altmayer suggested painting the reveal white for a greater contrast and
differentiation between the sign face and the pedestal.
The Board discussed other possible changes to the sign including reducing
the overall size, various reveal sizes, and color changes.
Mr. Nesheim closed the public hearing.
The Board discussed the aesthetics of the proposal, interpretations of the
sign code, and ways to achieve visual separation of the sign face from the
base area.
MRS. ALTMAYER MOVED THAT THE APPLICATION BE APPROVED WITH THE FOLLOWING
CONDITIONS:
1. A SIX -INCH WIDE REVEAL IN THE POSITION AS SHOWN IN EXHIBIT 1.
2. THE REVEAL PAINTED THE SAME COLOR AS THE LETTERING OF THE SIGN AND GO
AROUND ALL SIDES OF THE SIGN BASE.
3. AT NO TIME SHALL THE LOWER PORTION BE USED AS A SIGN.
MRS. REGEL SECONDED THE MOTION, WHICH PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
Minutes
MRS. REGEL MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE AUGUST 7, 1986 MEETING AS
PRESENTED. MRS. HERNANDEZ SECONDED THE MOTION, WHICH PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
MR. GOE MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER 4, 1986 MEETING AS
PRESENTED. MRS. ALTMAYER SECONDED THE MOTION, WHICH PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jack Pace
Planning Department
CI T Y OF TUKWILA
PLANNING DIVISION
PLANNING COMMISSION
STAFF REPORT
AGENDA ITEM 86 -47 -APP: Kaiser Development
INTRODUCTION
Kaiser Development Company wants to build a specific freestanding sign at the
entrance to Gateway Corporate Center (Interurban Avenue South and South 133rd
Street). The Sign Code permits this sign, but Kaiser disagrees with staff's
interpretation that the sign area exceeds the code requirements (see Attachment
A). Kaiser is appealing staff's interpretation.
FINDINGS
1. Freestanding signs are permitted as either temporary real estate or perman-
ent signs. Because the proposed sign is to be permanent and to identify
Gateway Corporate Center (Attachment B), staff found the sign to be a per-
manent freestanding sign.
2. TMC 19.08.210 defines a sign to be:
Sign means any medium, including paint on walls, merchandise, or visual
communication device, its structure and component parts, which is used
or intended to be used to attract attention to the subject matter for
advertising or identification purposes. Bulletin boards and reader
boards are considered signs.
3. TMC 19.08.040 defines sign area as:
Area and background area means the entire face of a sign or panel upon
which copy or insignia may be placed. Where separate letters or shapes
are used, the sign area shall be that encompassed by drawing lines at
the extremities of the shapes to be used.
Examples of sign area measurements (not in the sign code) for freestanding
signs are:
BOARD OF ADJUSTMEMT
Staff Report
SIGN FACE AREA =
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SIGN FACE AREA
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4. The maximum permitted size of a freestanding sign (for this property) is 100
square feet and a total of 200 square feet for all sides (TMC 19.22.140(C)).
5. Based upon the definitions of sign and sign area , staff found the sign area
of the proposed sign to be the entire 160 - square foot face of the sign and a
total sign area over 326 square feet (see Attachment B).
6. The applicant believes the sign area should be interpreted "as the zone
encompassed by straight lines around the copy or insignia ", or total square
feet (Attachment A).
7. The exclusive test of this appeal is whether or not the appeal demonstrates
that staff clearly errored in the interpretation of TMC 19.08.040 and
10.08.210. In other words, if reasonable people can see these sections in
different ways, then an error is not clearly made.
CONCLUSIONS
1. The visual area of the proposed sign (inverted solid rectangle) is substan-
tially greater than the same message mounted on a slender pole. Staff
viewed the visually more dominant proposal to be a mass which visually
constituted a single element, or sign. That mass is as much of a sign as
the message itself.
BOARD OF ADJUSTMEMT (._..
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the appeal b'e denied.
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Staff Report Page 3
2. Because the method used by staff is commonly used in the sign industry and
is logical from an aesthetic viewpoint, staff feels an error was not clearly
made. The appeal (Attachment A) does not demonstrate that staff so clearly
errored.
3. Identification of the Gateway Corporate Center is recognized to be important
to Kaiser. Staff exhausted alternatives to the subject code interpretation
to accommodate that identification. The issue is not in compliance with the
sign code but of adherence to this specific sign design. A freestanding
sign can be easily designed for the Center in a manner conforming to the
Sign Code, while adequately identifying the Center.
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September 4, 1986
Planning Department
City of Tukwila
6200 Southcenter Boulevard
Tukwila, WA 98188
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Attn: Ms. Becky Kent
Subject: Sign Code; Sections 19.08.040, 19.08.210 and 19.32.140
Gentlemen:
We desire an interpretation of the City's Sign Code with respect to our proposed
project sign. Therefore, we desire to be heard at the next possible Board of
Adjustment hearing.
As the developer of Gateway Corporate Center, we desire to install a quality sign
to identify our project during construction and leasing phases. The type of sign
we want to install is shown on the attached sheet and we believe it meets the
intent of the sign ordinance.
Section 19.08.040 defines the sign area as the zone encompassed by straight lines
around the copy or insignia. This area on our proposed sign consists of the
upper 12.5 feet more or less (not to exceed 100 sq. ft.).
Section 19.08.210 defines the sign to be the portion intended or used to attract
attention. The apron portion of our proposed sign is not designed to attract
attention, but to hide the distraction of sign posts and to give a complete and
neat appearance to the sign and copy.
Section 19.32.140 is concerned with the total sign area. We are in conformance
with this portion of the code as each sign area face (two faces) will not exceed
100 square feet each.
A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation
ATTACHMENT A
KAISER CENTER: 300 LAKESIDE DRIVE, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94643 TELEPHONE: (415) 271 -5660 TELEX: 335315
RANCHO CALIFORNIA, CA/HAWAII KAI, HI/KAISER CTR., OAKLAND, CA/INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES- WESTERN STATES/KAISER ALUMINUM REAL ESTATE FACILITIES-WORLDWIDE
Sincerely,
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Joe Cusenza
Diane Chaney
Robert Kagan
If you have any questions about this application, please call me at (415)
271 -3844.
G. L. Kir patr
Division Engineering Manager
Industrial /Commercial North
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Notice 0f•.Public Hearing and Meeting of the
Tukwila Board of Adjustment
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Tukwila Board of Adjustment has fixed the 2nd day of
October,.1986 at 7:00 p.m. in Conference Room #3 of Tukwila City Hall, 6200 Southcenter
Boulevard, Tukwila, Washington, as the time and place for:
Public Hearings
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Sign Code definition for sign area and background area. The applicant is proposing to
locate a freestanding sign at the entrance to Gateway Corporate Center at 12830
Interurban Avenue South.
Any and all interested persons.are invited to attend.
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