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| Written by Jesse Trimble | |||
| Wednesday, 14 October 2009 08:00 | |||
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Many signs are displayed within the city. From business signs advertising drink specials or lunch menus to signs you see for a garage sale next Saturday. Regardless, changes may be implemented soon to city codes to make the regulations more accommodating for more signs. Mike Gotfredson, city planner, said the changes are to make it easier for people to follow regulations and to keep everything consistent. For example, LED illuminated signs are currently prohibited within city limits, but some signs, such as Sonic’s sign, have been up despite rules. These changes will be updated in the new codes to assist businesses within the city with getting more signs up. The only concern that came from the city council was from council member Jim Pritchard, who said he just didn’t want the city to end up looking like Branson. Under Section 07.102, B. Exemptions from Sign Permits, two new entries could be added. The first deals with construction signs for contractors to identify what is being constructed, remodeled or property improved on-site where construction is taking place. The signs cannot exceed 6 feet in height or 8 square feet in area. The second possible addition is a single free speech sign may be placed on any lot, given that the property is private and not within the visibility triangle at an intersection and cannot exceed six feet in height or 12 square feet in area. “The freedom of speech addition is new in text, but not in effectiveness,” Gotfredson said. He added that as of now, the rule allows for public service or information signs to be put up on private property. The change in name to freedom of speech sign will allow people to skip the hassle of arguing that their sign is providing a public service or public information — but rather they can just put it up because they want to. According to Gotfredson, signs have not been detrimental to the city, but these changes will just make it more obvious to residents of the laws within the city. “My job is to educate the public,” Gotfredson said. He added his main concern with signs was the differences between commercial advertising. “The signs you see on telephone poles — they don’t do much but add clutter,” he said. He stressed that the city works with contractors’ signs and business owners’ signs, but wanted to cut down on pieces of paper offering services from pest control to cleaning up a foreclosed house, which are cluttering up telephone poles.
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