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Conway Community Appearance Board approves Sinclair monument sign, requires retaining wall to match building materials
Summary
The City of Conway Community Appearance Board approved a permit for a new Sinclair monument sign at 600 Main Street and required the sign base and retaining wall materials to match the building’s brick, board members said.
The City of Conway Community Appearance Board approved a permit for a new Sinclair monument sign at 600 Main Street at a meeting (date not specified). The board approved an internally illuminated monument sign measuring 5 feet wide by 7 feet high and added a condition that the sign base and any retaining wall around it must match the building materials.
City staff member Katie Dennis presented the application and said, “The applicant is proposing to install a new monument sign measuring 5 foot, wide by 7 foot in height.” Dennis said the proposed wall sign areas total about 23.85 square feet and that the monument sign will be internally illuminated with lettering, gas-price numbers and a logo visible when lit.
Dennis said staff had reviewed the site plan with the sanitation director because a double dumpster sits nearby and that the director was not concerned with the placement. She said the retaining wall shown in the application is intended to meet the landscaping requirement in the city’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO).
David, a representative from Diamond Shores who is working with the contractor on the site, described franchise restrictions on color and logo. “The closest they could get to the retro design with the old timey dinosaur was what is here, but they did have limitations on exact color changes,” he said.
Board members questioned materials and irrigation. Dennis said the sign base would be required to match the building because the sign base exceeds 18 inches in height, and that the UDO and the city’s sign regulations require material consistency. She told the board they could add a condition requiring the retaining wall to match the sign base and building materials; a board member suggested staff add that requirement to the approval.
A motion to approve the sign, with the caveat that the retaining-wall materials match the building, carried on a voice vote. The motion, second and the vote were recorded as a voice vote in the minutes; the transcript does not record individual yes/no vote names or a numerical tally.
After the vote, the board moved to public input and staff noted a proposed CAB workshop date (tentatively Sept. 24) and asked members to submit topics by the Sept. 10 meeting.
The approval applies only to the sign and the retaining-wall material condition; Dennis said no wall sign is proposed at this time and that electronic display is permitted for gas pricing under the sign regulations.
The board’s action does not itself grant any alteration of building façades or canopy designs beyond the sign permit; those elements previously approved will continue to govern facade and canopy work, Dennis said.
