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Office has taken this in their hands and they have received permission from the different landlords as these requests have come forth. Mr. Maloney said he is in agreement with Mr. Nashar. There are situations where the landlord has multiple tenants and it should be his responsibility to have the total signage for the entire development which we have to address, rather than have every business come in individually to the board and then you have to have inultiple variances. This is just like the one we just reviewed, because a tenant is going over the allocated square footage permitted. I think one way to clear that up is if we could make a motion that we, the members of the Board of Zoning Appeals, request the City of North Olmsted Council to take under advisement and draw up an ordinance whereby, the landlord or inanagement company of property in the City of North Olmsted that would contain one or more businesses within a parcel, to be required to present to the Building Department the overall plan with a total signage package that would be within the limits of the City of North Olmsted sign ordinances. And that way the responsibility goes back to the Council to come up with an ordinance and then also protects the Building Department when these people come in for signage. I think it would reduce the number of requests that have to come through the Board of Zoning Appeals for granting excess signage such as we see with the Vitamin Shoppe and as we saw earlier with Blockbuster. Mr. Kelly asked Mr. O'Malley if he sees any legal problem with any of that. Mr. O'Malley said he thinks the Chairman's comments and the Councilman's comments are on two different wavelen;ths about two different but related subjects. He said he thinks the Councilman's point is well taken and the Chairman's point should be well taken as well but he doen't know that necessarily the Chairman's suggestion to Council is responsive to the Councilman's concern. Mr. Kremzar questioned if he is concerned about the number of signs rather than the size. Mr. O'Malley said he reads the Councilman's memo as suggesting to the board that when the Daishin Restaurant comes in and asks for a variance to double the amount of signage on its building that the board consider saying no. He said he gets the impression from the Couricilman that when Blockbusters comes in and says instead of one sign, we'd like two, and we'd like to double up on the total square footage, that the board contemplate a denial. He said he thinks the suggestion is a good one but will it necessarily prevent people from applying for variances if the whole package is presented and it's part of the initial review process? Will it prevent people from asking for variances? No. Mr. Maloney said they had a situation with the Great Northern Shopping Center several years back and he understands there was a meeting between the planning and the building department for an overall sign package to be contained with the shopping center. It dealt with the size and signage and there had been a few exceptions down the road but they more or less had an overall program for the entire shopping center. Mr. Rymarczyk said it never materialized. Each one came in individually on it. They did come in for a meeting but nothing ever materialized. He added that all the letters should have been red in the entire center and there is a multitude of colors. Tenants came before the board any time they needed a height variance or square footage variance. Mr. O'Malley said he believes the City of Westlake has a provision such as you are describing and he knows they employed it when the Promenade went in. It was a requireinent that at the planning stage that the developer show and map out the square footage for each tenant. Then, before they could modify the sign plan they would have to go through the landlord and the landlord would have to petition the Planning Commission for a modification of the development plan before going to the Board of Zoning Appeals on an individual basis. I believe that what you are suggesting could be accomplished and it's a good legislative idea. Mr. Konold agreed and said it is a good starting point. Mr. Kremzar said they would have to look at it more closely at the next meeting and thereafter. Mr. O'Malley said this is a retail town and we have to face that fact. There are economic considerations. The businesses are interested in promoting their business, and the sign people are interested in selling signs, and they are ringing the register, paying taxes, and paying employees. Mr. Maloney asked if this is a good starting point that we as a Commission can make this request of the Council, that they take this under advisement to draw up an ordinance and get something like this implemented. Mr. O'Malley said he wouldn't want the Council to consider the Board's suggestion in any way defensive or putting it back on them. He said he thinks there are two issues. 5