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Pl anni ng & Zo ni n g B o ar d Mar c h 9 , 200 5 Page 12 APPROVED MINUTES meeting. He stated he was willing to work w ith the business owners and he was glad to see so many business owners finally show up at a meeting. Mr. Nelson asked if they had discussed the “A ” frame signs. He asked if the businesses wanted to use those types of signs. One of the business owners noted those types of signs fell over easily and they were expensive. Joelle Roberts showed a sample of a metal si gn as a possible solution. She stated it was important that temporary signa ge be allowed on corners. Mr. Hyden asked how would they regulate whose signage was up on what corner. He expresse d concern about too many signs on corners. He asked how would they limit where the businesses could place signs. Katie Allen stated there were other issues such as putting a billboard type of a sign on private property where the owner had agreed to rent the space, but they have been told by the City that was not allowed. Chair Rafferty asked if they had a monument sign. Katie Allen acknowledged they did, but noted the problem with the monument sign was that it was only seen from Birch Street and not Lake Drive. She stated a sign on Lake Drive would let people know where they were located. She stated they were wil ling to build any type of sign the City would allow them to build. Chair Rafferty noted it was up to the business ow ners to come up with a sign they wanted to propose to the City and their discussion toni ght was to deal with banners and streamers only. Katie Allen stated they needed to change the law that said they could not rent permanent signage from an individual owne r. She noted they did not know how to change the law. Jim Szyplinski, Mansetti’s, stated he wanted flat, metal signs along the roadway and get rid of the banner signage. He stated he woul d want a sign at the intersection of Birch and Lake Drive and he was willing to pay for this type of signage. Chad Wagner, Millers on Main, stated the types of signs on the freeways they were talking about were $1,500 and th en $400 per quarter. He believed there was a lack of communication and procedure in notifying th e businesses about the sign meetings. He noted he had not been contacted or seen anyt hing about this issue from the last time he was at one of these meetings. He stated if there was better communication, there might have been better turnout. He indicated he personally wanted to keep banners on his building and on his site. He noted he had contacted many of the business owners in attendance tonight personally to inform them of this meeting and the impact it would have on their businesses. He stated he ha d not received any notices of the meetings, except by an email which he received this past Monday. Chair Rafferty noted one of the biggest dilemmas they faced was that they were trying to find a medium to control the signage and yet make both the businesses and the City happy. He noted there had to be some controls put in place and the controls had to be