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ORIGINAL
CERTIFICATE OF RESOLUTION
I, Ann Lazzeri, Secretary to the City of Wheat Ridge Board of Adjustment, do hereby certify that
the following Resolution was duly adopted in the City of Wheat Ridge, County of Jefferson,
State of Colorado, on the 27th day of Avril, 2006.
CASE NO: W A-06-05
APPLICANT'S NAME: Copper Fields Land Holdings LLC
LOCATION: 4901 Marshall Street
WHEREAS, the applicant was denied permission by an administrative officer; and
WHEREAS, Board of Adjustment Application Case No. W A-06-05 is an appeal to this Board
from the decision of an administrative officer; and
WHEREAS, the property has been posted the fifteen days required by law, and in recognition
that there were protests registered against it, in particular by CBS Outdoor and Mile High
Outdoor; and
WHEREAS, the relief applied for MAY be granted without detriment to the public welfare or
substantially impairing the intent and purpose of the regulations governing the City of Wheat
Ridge.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Board of Adjustment Case No. W A-06-05 be,
and hereby is APPROVED.
FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:
1. The hardship is topographical and is created by a severe grade change which would
render a conforming billboard substantially invisible. From the perspective of the
highway, the billboard at 50 feet will not appear as over-height.
2. The hardship has not been created by a person having interest in property.
3. Granting the variance would not change or alter the character of the neighborhood.
4. As a mitigating circumstance, there is no residential zoned property within the direct line
of sight for several hundred feet in all directions.
5. A letter of approval of the variance was submitted by an adjacent property owner.
6. Three other billboards exist with height variances with similar reasons occurring.
Board of Adjustment
Resolution W A-06-05
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7. A 50-foot billboard has occurred historically on this site with no complaints registered
with the city.
8. Staffrecommended approval.
WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITION:
The face ofthe billboard must be oriented perpendicular to Interstate 70.
VOTE:
YES:
ABBOTT, BELL, BLAIR, HOVLAND,
HOWARD, LINKER, REINHART
None
DRDA
NO:
ABSENT:
DISPOSITION: A request for a variance to the maximum allowable height for billboards under
Section 26-711 for property zoned Commercial One and Industrial was APPROVED.
ADOPTED and made effective this 27th day of Avril, 2006.
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Ann Lazzeri, Secretary
Board of Adjustment