Disregard for Santa Barbara’s Sign Ordinance Spinning Out of Control

6 Responses to Disregard for Santa Barbara’s Sign Ordinance Spinning Out of Control

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   Anonymous January 28, 2013 at 10:40 am #

   Harmless and probably helpful. Leave Palazzio alone!

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   el_smurfo January 28, 2013 at 11:19 am #

   Perhaps it is the creation and enforcement of petty ordinances that is spinning out of control?

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     Anonymous January 28, 2013 at 1:49 pm #

     The ordinances are part of what make Santa Barbara special.

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       el_smurfo January 28, 2013 at 3:12 pm #

       Then why does downtown look like downtown anywhere CA? If you’re going to “ordinance” everything, maybe we should start by banning homeless, lame stores and bad restaurants to get back to what used to make Santa Barbara special?

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   Olive Smurfett January 28, 2013 at 4:00 pm #

   That light is an unpermitted commercial sign and can and should be regulated under local city ordinance.

   To make up a verb, to “ordinance” homeless, lame stores, and bad restaurants would not be legal or Constitutional. However, commercial sign regulation is legal.

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     Peter January 29, 2013 at 1:00 am #

     If the sign didn’t rotate or change (could be a simple setting on the projector) then the sign is not explicitly prohibited, and could have been permitted. This is such a small example.. try counting sandwich boards in the public right of way, hundreds of them. ( though most cities relax enforcement on such things, in bad economic times, because it is really seen as business unfriendly against the smaller mom and pop type businesses who struggle more without big corporate backing )

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