Has anyone seen the first Shrek that came out in 2001? If you saw it you will remember when people were not allowed to clap unless a government official held up a sign to clap. They were directed into every little step of their lives. Logan City and Cache County are doing the same. They want a perfect little Utopian society around here where nothing is allowed unless it first meets their personal approval and second their ego is satisfied. Lets not forget, there are the mandatory things they force us with an iron fist into doing. What we have here is a city and county with employees and many on their respective councils who hate with a passion, private enterprise and even small businesses unless those small businesses donate everything they have to USU athletics. Now they want to tell you what signs you can put up on your private property. In this case you can't put anything up at all. They are socialists to a level that makes even the USSR start to look good.
Taken from the Hearld Journal
Logan imposes sign moratorium
By Emilie H. Wheeler
Published:
Friday, January 18, 2008 2:36 AM CST
Businesses wanting to install electronic signs visible to passing motorists in Logan will have to wait a few months before going forward with those plans.
The city’s Municipal Council is imposing a five-month moratorium on such installations in order to further research how to regulate the technologically advancing devices.
In an ordinance approved earlier this week, the council unanimously approved establishing a temporary zoning regulation prohibiting “electronic message centers/reader board” signs.
Such placements will be prohibited until the city can establish regulations to address the size, use, height, design and programming limits of the technology.
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“We’ll look at multiple other communities and then have to take those ideas and adapt them to our own unique community,” Logan Community Development Director Jay Nielson said.
Councilman Steve Thompson fought a proposed six-month ban, saying he thought three months was adequate. The Community Development department would “get the job done” in whatever amount of time they needed, but preferred to have six months, Nielson said.
Rather than “come up with some half-baked ordinance,” councilwoman Tami Pyfer said a full six months — or close to it — were preferable to her.
The five-member council negotiated five months, with an option to terminate the moratorium before if regulations are written before then.
The issue first came to light last month after a resident approached the council worried the brightness and colors on an electronic sign at about 1200 South on U.S. Highway 89/91 could bring about safety concerns. Some city officials had already been working with the owners of that sign to minimize those concerns, but admitted the issue was bigger than just one sign.
Councilmembers are concerned about other signs coming in with new and existing businesses that could bring complaints from motorists.
Nielson said his department will be conducting independent research on how other communities are handling these signs, as well as meeting with representatives from the industry to gather input from them.
“So we will just be gathering information for the first month of so,” he said. “Then we’ll start to formulate some amendments to the code and then we’ll start the process through the Planning Commission and then on through the City Council.”
The Young Electric Sign Company, which is based in Ogden but has a facility in Logan, has agreed through a representative who attended the last council meeting to work with the city in writing regulations. YESCO Vice President Mike Record earlier told The Herald Journal his company is aware of community concerns — not just in Logan — regarding the new high-tech signs.
“In most cases, these signs can be managed and dimmed down,” Record said two weeks ago. “If they’re done tastefully and they’re done right, they’re really amazing public services.”
Nielson said he will also be obtaining direction from the American Planning Association, and while he’s grateful for input from companies like YESCO, will search for diverse suggestions.
“We want to end up with a code that’s workable, but we have to do our own independent research because when the sign industry does their own ... it’s done from a definite bias,” he said.
At least two public hearings will be conducted by the Planning Commission and the Municipal Council before ordinances are changed.
Current electronic signs will be able to stay the way they are in terms of size and shape, but Nielson said the programming will need to conform to any new regulations.
“We want to make sure that the existing signs are consistent with the new signs,” he said.
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