design of building or its facade.  Distinctiveness, shape, color and resemblance to barn, while designed to attract customers, is not within prohibitions of sign ordinance.
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County.  Hon. Percy Thornton, Jr., judge presiding.
LaRue Van Meter, City Attorney,    for plaintiffs in error.
Royce A. Spence (Lytton H. Gibson,    on brief), for defendants in error.
HARRISON
HARRISON, J., delivered the opinion of the court.
On the petition of Irving Berman and Betty Berman, husband and wife, and the Red Barn System, Inc., appellees, a writ of mandamus *775 was granted by the lower court ordering appellants, Planning Commission of the City of Falls Church, Virginia, and the individual members thereof to approve a site plan application filed byappellees.  Ralph B. Ley, Building Inspector for the City of Falls Church, appellant, was directed to issue a building permit to the appellee petitioners in accordance with the site plan.  The Planning Commission and Ley were granted an appeal from this final order of the lower court.
Red Barn System, Inc., with headquarters in Florida, franchises a chain of restaurants throughout the country.  The restaurant structure is similar in design and appearance to a red barn.  In 1968 it leased from the Bermans two parcels of land, located on West Broad Street in Falls Church, with the intention of erecting thereon a free standing restaurant.  The leased land was zoned in a category, designated as B-1 and B-2, which allowed, prior to April 28,