1-B-21-DT

Level I: Daylight Building

Approve As Requested

APPROVE 1-B-21-DT as submitted.

Recommendation

Staff recommends approval of 1-B-21-DT as submitted.

Applicant Request

Level I:
Two-story brick commercial building with an Art Deco metal canopy on the façade (south elevation). Nine bays wide, with transoms over storefronts and limestone bulkheads below storefront windows. Details include a corbelled beltcourse and multi-light metal windows with stone sills/

- Installation of illuminated projecting sign. Round sign measures 2'-9" in diameter (7.56 square feet if measuring the square outline around the sign), with white neon lettering mounted off the face of the sign cabinet. The sign will hang from the canopy similar to adjacent Union Ave Books sign, and the bottom of the sign will be 11'-0" above the sidewalk level.

Property Notes / Work to be Completed

- The Daylight Building is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, so the Historic Resources section of the design guidelines applies. Previous reviews of signs below the canopy of the Daylight Building (including the adjacent Union Avenue Books sign, 8-B-11-DT) have encouraged signs to stay within the guidelines' recommendation of 9 square feet to avoid visual clutter under the historic canopy. Union Avenue Books' sign is internally illuminated and measures a total of 9 square feet.
- Similar to the adjacent sign for Union Avenue Books, the proposed sign will hang from the underside of the canopy with two metal brackets. The proposed sign is under 9 square feet and limits the internal illumination to white neon lettering which is mounted on the sign cabinet. Conduits and wiring wil be painted black and adjacent to the bracket. The sign will meet City zoning ordinance requirements with the bottom of the sign cabinet 11'-0" above the sidewalk level.

Applicable Guidelines

Downtown Knoxville Design Guidelines

- C. Historic Resources
- 7. Recommended Signs
- 7a. Locate signs above storefront windows, below second-story windows on the sign board, or on the storefront windows themselves (30% is maximum coverage), or off the front of the building as a projecting sign (maximum size: 9 square feet).
- 7b. Create signs that are proportional to the building where they are located.
- 7c. Do not light signs internally.
- 7e. Preserve signs that are historic elements of buildings.
- Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
- 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property.
- 10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired

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