A permit has been approved for a comprehensive sign plan for an industrial development west of Ellsworth Road on the north side of Elliot Road in Mesa.
The Mesa Board of Adjustment on Oct. 5 voted 4-0 to approve the special use permit for the development in a light industrial zoning district with a planned area development overlay as part of a consent agenda with other items. Board members Adam Gunderson, Chris Jones and Heath Reed were absent.
For signs attached to a single tenant space of a multiple tenant building, the attached sign shall not exceed more than 75% of the width of the front of the occupancy upon which the attached sign is placed, according to the city’s zoning ordinance. The applicant is requesting a modification to allow attached signs for single tenants to not exceed more than 80% of the width of the front of the occupancy upon which the attached sign is placed, Staff Planner Cassidy Welch said in a written staff report.
“Per [the zoning ordinance], each single tenant occupant within a multiple tenant space is permitted a minimum of 24 square feet of attached sign area regardless of the front foot of building occupancy. The applicant is requesting to allow each single tenant a minimum of 50 square feet regardless of the front foot of building occupancy,” she wrote.
The applicant is Jared Segel of Associated Sign Co. The owner is TC Elliot Gateway Venture LLC.
The Elliot Gateway development encompasses 42.6 acres and consists of four buildings ranging in size from 54,640 to 186,111 square feet, Segel said in a written project narrative.
“The [comprehensive sign plan] includes a mixture of detached ground signs and one freeway landmark sign included in the [comprehensive sign plan] located on the west side of the development adjacent to the Loop 202 frontage. This sign will display both the name of the development as well as six tenants on the sign. Additionally, there are three monument signs designed into the [comprehensive sign plan],” he said. “All signage proposed in the [comprehensive sign plan] conforms to the city of Mesa zoning code and poses zero negative effect to any persons or properties adjacent the development.”
The seven-member board conducts public meetings to hear and decide requests for variances, special-use permits and interpretations of the city of Mesa zoning ordinance and sign code. Members are appointed for staggered terms of three years, according to the city’s website.
Richard Dyer Managing Editor | East Valley @RHDyer
Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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