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Board allows larger signage for Pizza Ranch at 1709 North Jefferson Way
Summary
The board approved a variance allowing Pizza Ranch to exceed the city’s standard wall-signage limit at 1709 North Jefferson Way, permitting roughly 140–150 square feet of signage after staff noted the property’s setback and long frontage.
The Indianola Board of Adjustment approved a variance requested by Pizza Ranch to allow wall signage exceeding the standard maximum at its 1709 North Jefferson Way location.
City staff described the proposal as part of facade improvements that include paint and materials; the applicant proposed about 140 square feet of primary signage plus additional smaller signs (staff estimated roughly 150 square feet in total). Staff said the code permits 1.5 square feet of wall signage per linear foot of tenant frontage up to 100 square feet, and that an exception allows up to 200 square feet when a building is set back 250 feet or more from the property line. The property’s measured setbacks were described as approximately 167 feet to the property line, 218 feet to the center line of southbound Highway 65 and 270 feet to the center line of northbound Highway 65, so it fell short of the 250-foot automatic exception but far from the right of way.
Staff said Pizza Ranch has occupied the site since 2014 and that no public opposition or correspondence had been received in the 200-foot notice area. The board moved to approve the variance as requested; a roll call showed the motion carried. Staff noted the proposal was corporate-driven and that the applicant had been offered the variance route after earlier design iterations.
The approval allows the proposed signage as submitted; any future site or sign permit work must follow usual building-permit and sign-permit processes.
