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MINUTES OF ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING HELD 1/8/08 Present: Lloyd Frink, Chairman, Frank Barresi, Vice Chairman, Allen Firstenberg, Scott Davis, George Dansereau and Mary Ann Loncto Others Present: Kevin Ward Scott Leary Jane Travis Sally Trabucco Joe Indovino Michael Trabucco John Fenton Mark Parella Meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. Secretary took roll call. All members present. ELANT NURSING HOME, 37 SOUTH MESIER AVENUE First on the agenda was the request of The Great American Sign Company seeking a variance from Section 151-12(G)(3) of the Zoning Ordinance to be able to have a larger sign than allowed by Code for Elant Nursing Home located at 37 S. Mesier Avenue. At this time the applicant submitted for the record his notice of publication which was published in the December 19, 2007 edition of the Poughkeepsie Journal and proof of mailing of legal notices. It was stated that on the record was documentation from the property owner allowing Mr. Leary to represent them. Also on file is a letter from Dutchess County Department of Planning dated January 8, 2008. It was stated that the proposed sign is slightly larger than the existing sign – the existing sign sits between the posts and they would like to use the outside edges of the post – essentially the sign would be mounted to the face of the posts instead of inside of the posts. Mr. Frink asked the applicant why he felt the dimensions of the sign needed to be 36” by 60” and applicant answered that they are looking at letter heights to be approximately 7 inches – it is a 30 mph road and the larger the text they can maintain on the sign the easier it is for motorists to read it for safety reasons. They also want to use the applicants logo and in order to use that – they need to “push” the lettering to the right side of the sign to allow the logo to be in proportion to the sign. Mr. Frink asked if the applicant could use a post/arm sign instead of a monument sign and applicant stated they would not be able to maintain the letter size. Mr. Frink asked the applicant to maintain the letter size for length of the sign he would require a 4 lineal ft sign and he answered at 4 ft. the text area would be crowded and difficult to read. Mr. Frink then went on to state that two concerns of the proposed sign would be (1) it is not subservient to the street space and (2) it does not allow visual continuity to the neighborhood and Mr. Leary stated that the existing sign does not conform to either of those things either and they did base their concept off the existing sign thinking that the Village had approved that type of sign in the past. It was stated that “Elant” has other locations and the sign design would be the same. For the record it was stated that the Village speed limit is 25 mph. Mr. Firstenberg asked if the sign had been before the Planning Board and applicant answered no but he was planning to go to the Planning Board if and when he got the approval from the ZBA. Mr. Frink stated for the record there is no commentary from the Planning Board.