The Needham Design Review Board on Monday night approved special permits allowing four signs at 63 Kendrick Street, finding the proposed address numerals and two monument directional signs meet the intent of the town’s sign rules.

The permits, approved by unanimous roll-call vote, cover two rooftop-mounted channel-number signs that extend above the roofline, plus two freestanding monument directional signs located at the entrances to the rear parking lot. The motion to approve was made by Millie Bridal and seconded by Felix (last name not specified); the board chair, Mark Losing, voted with the majority.

The signs are part of a larger redevelopment of the property, which the applicant said sits in the New England Business Center zoning district and was recently reconfigured under a planning-board site-plan amendment. George Shunta Jr., attorney for 63 Kendrick Realty LLC, said the rooftop signs are “simply the number 63, denoting the street address of the property, namely 63 Kendrick Street,” and that the monument signs are directional for parking and loading.

Applicant representatives described the rooftop numbers as face‑lit channel numerals sized at 14.9 square feet on the front elevation and 3.69 square feet on the rear elevation. Each monument sign’s graphic panel is 30 inches by 18 inches mounted on a precast-concrete base so the total height is 48 inches (4.0 feet), which exceeds the 3-foot threshold in the sign bylaw and therefore requires special-permit relief. The applicants said the monument signs will not be illuminated.

Shunta and project team members said the two rooftop numbers extend above the roof and therefore require relief; they also noted a bylaw provision that ordinarily permits only a single number sign, which the applicants said makes multiple number signs another basis for a permit. The applicants described mounting details for the larger rooftop numeral — a continuous steel plate behind the numbers — and said the monument bases are likely precast concrete with a milky-gray finish.

Board members asked about materials, mounting, and lighting. Millie Bridal asked whether the monument bases would be precast and whether the signs would be lit; the applicant confirmed precast bases and that the monument signs would not be lit. Board members also discussed structural attachment for the rooftop sign; the applicant said the sign vendor selected a continuous steel plate spanning the mounting points as the more secure solution.

Motion and vote: Millie Bridal made the motion to approve the special permits for signs 1, 2, 3 and 4 at 63 Kendrick Street; Felix seconded. Vote: Millie Bridal — yes; Felix — yes; Chair Mark Losing — yes. Outcome: approved.

The applicant said the tenant signage shown in the mockups (a placeholder reading “robotics company”) was for marketing and that any future tenant sign would return to the board for review if required. The board did not attach additional conditions beyond the need for standard building- and electrical‑permit approvals and the usual permitting coordination with the building commissioner.

The approved permitting relief was discussed in reference to the Town of Needham sign bylaw provisions cited by the applicant in the meeting. The board’s approval allows the applicant to proceed with sign fabrication and permitting; the building permit will handle structural and electrical details required by the building department.