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• <br /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 />