Bill Trentel wrote:This isn't exactly a new phenomena isn't exactly new. The dry cleaner at the corner of Elmwood and Madison has been parking a box truck with a sign on it prominently in the front corner of his lot for years, it doesn't seem to get much use but as a sign. I also seem to remember a small foreign car this LO marketing on it parked for hours on end in a public parking lot behind Rozi's.
Is it that this is not a Lakewood business that is offensive or that the condition of the vehicles is not up to your standard or is it the message?
Are you suggesting we begin to regulate vehicle signage? Who would be the policing entity,? The police, building dept., or a selected community gadfly?
We could allow only Lakewood business to advertise on their vehicles within our borders. Make UPS and Fedex cover up when they enter Lakewood. Only Lakewood HVAC contractors in our town.
Bill
Bill
I would think that there is a slight difference between a Lakewood business and
Lakewood taxpayer advertising a Lakewood business, than a business that stayed
out of Lakewood because of taxes, coming and parking a car secured from a junk
yard on the streets for days.
But then that is my opinion,and we are all entitled to them.
I suppose some of my outrage comes from other practices of this group. Like parking
a trailer with a large lit up sign opposite of the YMCA night after night, and never
applying for a temporary sign permit, that any other business in Lakewood would have
to apply for.
In my humble opinion a slight difference between a Rozi's deliver truck parked at Rozi's,
a Model T with Around the Corner parked in from of Around the Corner, a Silhouette
Dance Studio Van parked in front of Silhouette Dance, and yes even my wife's LO Mini
parked in a spot we pay the city $600 a year for.
If Lakewood were to make it illegal, I would respect those laws. In the end, all I am
asking the city to do is apply the same sign laws to businesses outside of Lakewood
with signs here as Lakewood businesses do. As I found it distasteful, I put it here for
discussion.
I also see this as the beginning of trend, like A-Frame Signs that were illegal for years,
then started popping up here and there, then started in pairs, then moving into the streets
then on top of cars, etc. I think it trashed the city up. The same could be said for banners. You used to have to apply for a temporary sign license, which was normally
for signage up while your actual sign went through approval process, or a limited
period of time. Now we see them riveted to buildings as permanent year round
signage.
I own a sign company, that can supply all of the signs we are speaking of the only
A-Frames I have delivered in Lakewood are the two the Lakewood Library has, as
they have enough space to use them on their property. They were not charged.
But again, just my opinions.
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