Commission approves signage with limits, modifies proposed awning and backs applicant on lighting at 94 East Main Street

The Design Review Commission considered a multipart application for 94 East Main Street — covering signage, an awning and lighting — and took separate votes on each element, approving signage with staff conditions, approving the awning with an amendment removing proposed columns and limiting its depth to the previously existing projection or less, and approving the applicant’s preferred lighting fixture despite staff recommending denial of that particular lantern style.

Staff reported that 94 East Main Street is part of a combined set of buildings at the gateway to the Downtown Franklin Historic District and described three sign types proposed on two facades: a wall sign (14.75 square feet) on a false-front building, three window signs on that same false-front façade, and on the…