Review Team Approves Chase Bank Sign Height Variance at Sam Houston Jones Parkway

The Corridor Overlay District Review Team voted to approve a sign-height variance for JP Morgan Chase Bank on Dec. 9, 2025, allowing a new monument sign at 610 Sam Houston Jones Parkway in Ward 1 to exceed the 8-foot maximum and be up to 17 feet tall. The motion on case OVDash0125Dash0002 passed unanimously by roll call.

Planning staff, identified in the record as Miss Tun (also transcribed later as Miss Tynn), told the board that the property is within the Quarter Overlay District and that Chase Bank currently occupies the site. "The staff recommends a request be granted with the condition that development adhere to the site plan on file with the division of planning and development provided that the director or designee may authorize adjustments to the site plan in light of technical or engineering considerations discovered during development," the staff representative said.

Stacy Landry, the applicant, spoke from the podium and gave an address on the record. "I'm here asking the board to please allow us to have that sign," Landry said, noting that an earlier sign at the site measured "20 feet 9 and 7 eighths of inches" and that the proposed replacement would be smaller than that.

The chair called for a motion to approve the request; the record states, "Motion made by mister Quinn, second by mister Steli." A roll-call vote followed; the recorded votes in the meeting transcript were 'Yes' for Mister Quinn, 'Yes' for Mister Stelly (name variation appears in the record), 'Yes' for Mister Burley, 'Yes' for a variation transcribed as 'Mister missus Weine,' and 'Yes' for Mister Smith. The chair announced, "Motion passes."

The approval is conditioned on adherence to the site plan on file with the Division of Planning and Development and allows the division director or designee to make technical or engineering adjustments during development. No public commenters filed blue request-to-appear cards on this item. The meeting adjourned shortly after the vote.

Record notes and discrepancies: the roll call at the start of the meeting recorded Diane Wyne as not present, while the vote record attributes a 'Yes' to a name variation that appears to correspond to that commissioner; the staff present is transcribed with two similar name variants ('Miss Tun' and 'Miss Tynn'); the applicant's stated address in the transcript reads "3949 Meadow Ridge, Baton Ridge, Louisiana 70817." These variations are noted to reflect the meeting record verbatim rather than editorial correction.