<P>F'ville sign rules show anti-business leanings

F'ville sign

rules show anti-business leanings

I opened the Mr. Transmission

in Fayetteville in March 2003. The Fayetteville sign ordinance is anti-business.

First of all, the ordinance

regarding banners as temporary signs is unrealistic. How can a business

advertise any specials on a banner for 60 days? So in my case I wanted

to put up a sign during our construction to advertise the coming of Mr.

Transmission. It could only stay out for 30 days. Because if I wanted

to advertise anything else I could only have the sign up for additional

30 days. Sixty days to advertise out of 365 days does not make much of

advertising.

At one time I had two signs

the size of a real-estate sign out near Glynn Street (Ga. Highway 85)

and I was given a warning to take them down, that they were not allowed.

I think [City Manager Joe]

Morton is giving lip service to Crumpton's. I'll bet the city

will decline any special variance.

We are located at 278 North

Glynn St. First of all we are not even on Glynn Street. I would like to

put up another sign on the side of our building but the sign ordinance

only allows us one sign on our building. In my opinion if the city was

out to help business, they would make considerations, rather than giving

out citations regarding a banner.

I would like to know if anybody

has complained to the city about Crumpton's banner. This is my first

business and I thought that the city would have been very supportive of

new business opening up. They were just the opposite.

When Mr. Morton said that the

city went to great strides with the sign ordinance, they only looked at

it from one side. I wonder how many business were involved in the decision-making

process of the sign ordinance?

I think the city has forgotten

that business make a city and if regulations like this one only allow

a business to put up a banner for 60 days, we are going to find more business

closing down. If we can only put out a banner temporary for 60 days and

are very limited on the signage that we are allowed to put on our business,