Application ! TOWN OF QUEENSBURY
APPLICATION TO ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
Number :
Submission
Date: October 12, 198:
1. Applicant ' s Name: NPSC Corporation Phone No.
Street Address: 30 Wall Street
City, State, ' Zip: New York, New York
2. Agent ' s Name: W. L. Christopher, Inc. Phone No. 79T
Street Address: Northway Plaza -- P.O. Box 732
City, State, Zip: Glens Falls, New York 12801
3. Owner ' s Name (if different from 1. ) :
Street Address:
City, State, Zip:
DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL
4 . Application is made for: I Use Variance
II Area Variance
III Site Plan Review
Sign Variance X
5. Zone Classification - Article: IV Section: 4 . 020-h
6. Allowable Uses as per Ordinance (describe) :
Local retail business or personal service establishments, including
stores and offices.
7 . Recent Use of Property: Shopping center and offices.
B . Proposed Use: Shopping center and offices.
9. Is lot in question within 500 feet of a County or a State R.O.W. or
park, municipal boundary, or watershed draining any County or State
facilities, requiring review of the Warren County Planning Board:
Yes ( X) No ( )
A plot plan in triplicate of the lot drawn to scale must be attached,
indicating the location and size of the lot, the location and size of
improvements thereon and the location and size of improvements
proposed to be erected thereon (see page 3) .
The applicant shall enclose in triplicate any iating a 'dence.
Is OPH C.
Dated this / 5 day of October P
1982 Signature pplicant
William L. Swanson
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This is an application by the owner of the
Northway Plaza for a variance from the strict application
of Section 6. 104. 1.b of the Sign Ordinance.
As depicted on the accompanying drawing No. 2 ,
the owner of the Northway Plaza intends to carry out
the program of improving the existing free standing
sign at the Route 9 entrance to its property.
The proposal is to reduce the existing pylon
height by approximately four feet. Sign lighting and
lettering would be simplified so that translucent
letters will be placed on an opaque background greatly
reducing the pylon' s brightness.
The improved sign, however, will be 32 feet in
height, and a variance is requested from the provision
of the sign ordinance which limits such signs to
25 feet in height.
The variance will allow the immediate elimination
of four feet of the existing sign, which is currently
nonconforming. Without the sign improvement, the
existing sign would not have to be reduced in height
until 1986.
Because the property is located on both Route 9
and Quaker Road, under the Sign Ordinance the owner would
be entitled to two freestanding signs. The owner,
however, desires to have the one sign on Route 9
serve as the sole entry sign for the property. The
sign is sized so. that it can be read from both
Route 9 and from Quaker Road. Granting the variance
will eliminate the need for a second freestanding
sign.
Because the existing sign is built on massive
underground concrete foundations, the owner believes
that its only reasonable course is to use as much of
the existing structure of the the existing sign as
possible in developing a new sign in order to minimize
cost and site disturbance. Consequently, the need
to completely remove the existing sign would result
in substantial difficulty and unnecessary hardship
to the owner that would deprive the owner of the
reasonable use of the existing sign. The compromise
that the owner has developed, namely, to keep the
existing foundation and structure, but replace its
aesthetic elements, is entirely reasonable.
The Northway Plaza is located on a heavy commercial
thoroughfare, dominated by large signs and billboards.
Not only would the proposed sign not be an intrusive
visual element in its existing setting, but it actually
would be a considerable improvement to the existing
aesthetic environment.
TOWN or OUEENSFDF'S:
"The pantie^ hereto --onse;it ?:=mt the p_oceedinF,*
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re--co--ded and trL'r FiCT.ib=`:i jD_. the '-own C_--ri- cr his agent
and that much m .nuter as nay b=_ shall constitute
the official reccIrd Of aIL p_occedinctm regarding thin
application, unl�,-ss the saute nsv vary from, the handwritt$r.
minutes taken by the Town Clerk or the Secretary of the
Planning Poarc or zoning Board of AppeLls. in uhich evert
the handwritten minuter- as to stich lmcon_istencies r3h?.ill
be deemed the official record.
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