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From: Dave Perry<dave@orovalleychamber.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 9:44 AM
To: Town Council
Cc: Keesler, Paul; Jacobs, Amanda; Caton, Greg; Bower, Julie; Standish, Michael
Subject: temporary sign relief for Rancho Vistoso Center
Attachments: RV Center sign relief 070214.docx
Ladies and gentlemen,
Attached, and pasted in, please find a letter regarding Item 4 on the Wednesday,
July 2, council agenda regarding "temporary sign relief for businesses fronting
Oracle Road..."
Thanks for your time and service.
Dave
July 2, 2014
Mayor Satish Hiremath
Members of the Oro Valley Town Council
Town staff
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for contemplating temporary sign relief for businesses impacted by
the Oracle Road construction project north of Tangerine Road, item 4 on
tonight's agenda. Our Chamber stands in support of such relief.
In addition, we would respectfully request some accommodation be given to the
Rancho Vistoso Plaza, which is contiguous to Oracle Road and has seen impacts
this week at 2 of its 3 entrances.
The Rancho Vistoso Center is accessible from the north via a right-hand entrance
off Oracle near Rancho Vistoso Urgent Care. Many southbound visitors to the
center use that access, even though there is not a monument sign along Oracle.
Fourteen businesses occupy space in the Rancho Vistoso Center: Oro Valley
Bicycle, Walgreens, Vistoso Automotive, Chase Bank, the Great American
Playhouse, Bon Voyage Travel, Pusch Ridge Design and Remodel, Sun
Cleaners, Grain River Asian Bistro, All the Buzz Café, Tortoise and the Hair,
State Farm / Frank Raney, the UPS Store and Oro Valley Pet Clinic. They are
arguably impacted by the road construction work.
The center has faced real challenges these last several years, particularly since the
closing of an anchor grocery business. Today, while there is positive activity, a
number of vacant spaces remain.
The permission before you would allow businesses to use the "New Business"
banner allowance on private property next to Oracle. Those signs can be up to 64
square feet.
How about one sign that identifies the Rancho Vistoso Center, and identifies its
tenants, for placement near the north entrance on Oracle Road?
Thanks for your service.
Respectfully submitted,
Dave Perry
President and CEO
Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce
7435 North Oracle Road, Suite 107
Oro Valley,Arizona 85704
(p) 520.297.2191
(f)520.742.7960
dave@orovalleychamber.com
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