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Commission allows limited Shell signage but rejects canopy light bars at Nevada City Highway station
Summary
Planning commissioners approved a sign‑exception permitting an internally illuminated price sign at a rebranding Shell station and denied proposed perimeter canopy 'light bars' and additional illuminated canopy symbols; commissioners debated whether branding features meet the code’s architectural-integration standard.
The Grass Valley Planning Commission approved a modified sign‑exception permit for a gas station rebranding to Shell at 2001 Nevada City Highway but rejected several proposed lighting elements the Development Review Committee had found inconsistent with the city's sign ordinance.
City planner Amy Wilson said the station was built in 1980 and annexed from Nevada County; the monument sign likely dates from about 1990. Staff and the DRC…
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