April 21, 2016

Mr. Staigar said most of the businesses on Route 10 have signs to locate their driveways; Vice Chairman Buechler said there is no comparison to this. Vice Chairman Buechler asked Mr. Staigar to state the distance between the medical building driveway and the health club driveway; he said approximately forty (40) or fifty (50) feet. Chairman Neuer asked Mr. Staigar why he did not design the health club driveway to be closer to the building; he said it was designed this way because of the grades. Vice Chairman Buechler asked Mr. Staigar why he did not put the monument sign on the original site plan. He said that the Board asked if there are going to be any other signs during the initial hearing for this project and the applicant said no. Mr. Regan responded and said at that time it was not their intention to put up a monument sign. Ms. Gabry asked Mr. Staigar if he is sure that the distance between the two driveways is forty (40) feet because the driveways appear to have more distance than that between them; Mr. Staigar said that was an approximation and after looking at it again he said the driveways are more like one hundred (100) feet apart. Mr. Staigar said that the applicant prefers that the health club members only use the driveway for the fitness center; he said that they do not want the people leaving the medical building to intermingle with the people coming to the gym. Mr. Regan asked Mr. Staigar if the driveways were existing; he replied yes. Mr. Staigar said that he could not move the driveway for the medical building; he said that they were stuck with the location of the driveway and the existing access for the health club Mr. Schwarzbaum asked Mr. Staigar if there is a smaller sign that they could put up delineating the health club driveway that would not require a variance; he replied no. Mr. Staigar said that it is not the size of the sign it is the location of the sign. Chairman Neuer asked Mr. Staigar if they could paint the words “LA Fitness” on the asphalt; he said yes but no one would see it as they approach the driveway. 12