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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
Lawn, I appreciate your thoughts and you make many good points. There is plenty of room to reason on both sides. My gripe with the planning board has always been that they have tried to go to extremes to mold the town into a fantasy village .....farms, churches and cottages. A wonderful picture but unrealistic for those of us who are struggling to make a living in these tough times. Two years ago they tried to rezone most of rt 25 to residential....a move that would have destroyed business and jobs in our town.
Sure, there is room for compromise and we have no objection to reasonable restrictions but we can't sell our products and services without signs.
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I found your place without ever seeing a sign. Something to think about.
If I were a business in the lakes region, I would pay the internet fee so that when someone searches for "breakfast place lake winnipesaukee" my place would be the first one on the list. Same for hotels. Many people stop looking after the first page of search results.
Signs are strange. Some towns and their businesses tend to naturally put in aesthetic signs so they blend in a way not to be eye sores. Other places (think Rt 1 Saugus, MA) have a pretty much free for all. So many bright signs that they become blight and practically all blend in.
Businesses needs signs for sure. But then you get the business that has a sign, scrolling marquee, billboard, and it does become an eyesore. A single well placed aesthetic sign is all it takes to get the message out.