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El Paso City zoning board approves six monument signs for large warehouse but leaves third Northwestern sign unresolved
Summary
The Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a variance allowing six monument signs for a proposed 28.4-acre warehouse site with the condition that signs be primarily directional, but repeatedly failed to adopt or deny a separate request to place three monument signs along Northwestern Drive and postponed that portion for a later meeting.
The Zoning Board of Adjustment of El Paso City on April 20 approved a variance allowing a proposed warehouse site to install six monument signs on the property, but left unresolved a separate request to permit three monument signs along Northwestern Drive.
Planning staff told the board the roughly 28.4-acre site along North Desert Boulevard and Pelón Norte Boulevard needs extra on-site wayfinding for heavy commercial vehicle traffic. Staff recommended approval of a total of six monument signs per premise, conditioned on limiting the number of signs to no more than two per frontage road, and recommended denial of the special request to allow three monument signs specifically along Northwestern Drive, saying the applicant had not demonstrated the legal “unnecessary hardship” required for that second relief.
Colin Corvix, speaking for the applicant,…
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