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Riverview Sports has been put under hardship beyond our control twice in the <br />past few years. In the spring of 1996 the Highway Department built a large <br />concrete retaining wall which blocks the view of our business from vehicles <br />passing on the highway. The department also installed a chain link fence <br />on top of this wall, further hindering our exposure. <br /> <br />Just this past fall (2002) the turn giving access to Riverview Sports for <br />eastbound traffic on Highway 10 was closed. Now traffic has to go farther <br />down the road to turn left and come back west to our store. Customer <br />traffic has definitely slowed down this past winter and spring because of <br />this inconvenience. <br /> <br />The city ordinance in question is not really fairly applicable in our case <br />either. We are a family owned business with the affected parcels of land <br />in the names of Les, Caryn or Chad Lundquist. Riverview is a sole propri- <br />etorship owned by Les & Caryn, and Chad is their son. We are all family, <br />and the property is share usage. The service road is a dead end road; <br />there is no other place Riverview can put a sign to indicate access to the <br />business. <br /> <br />We are planning to refurbish the existing sign and plan to use the existing <br />sign poles. We also will be removing approximately ten feet from the top <br />of the poles. The existing sign is probably 50 plus years old, and, to our <br />knowledge, there has never been so much as a fender-bender involved <br />with it. So the old sign can be left as is - or it can be refurbished if <br />this variance is granted. <br /> <br /> <br />