Griffin City Commission Makes A Big Mistake And The Business Owner Is Left With The Bill

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I want to tell you a story about the lunacy of the Griffin, GA commissioners who handle sign ordinances. I have a client who has a very prominent location on a busy strip in Griffin. He wanted to spend a lot of money and design a sign that would bring him lots of business and look great for the passersby. So he had some large, classy looking monuments made, and two bright beautiful LED signs to go in them. (One for each side of the monuments) In order to do something like this of course the government has to get involved so he went and applied for what is called a variance. The variance was granted and he went out and spent a lot of money getting his signs put up.

What do you think happened just about a week later? Well the city of Griffin came by and wrote him a ticket for his signs. They said that his signs didn't follow the rules and that he had to remove them. Out of curiosity I went to the city meeting where the signs were discussed. I sat and listened to everyone discussing the signs. It was very clear to me that the board had made up their mind long before they ever opened the meeting. I stood up and gave my opinion on the signs, it didn't seem to make a bit of difference. Others stood up in defense of the LED signs too. None of it made any difference to the board.

It seemed rather than being a place where citizen's voices mattered the meeting was just a place to feign an interest in the citizen's voice. When the owner of the business, Rick Sasser, went up to the podium he presented photos of his sign. As you take a look down the strip his sign was the shortest of all the signs around him. Not only that a few miles up the road he took a photo of a CVS pharmacy sign that was brightly lit with LED's and was clearly about 25 feet high. At the time he took the photo there was a Mayfield milk truck beside the CVS sign. Rick Sasser noted that the milk truck was about 14 feet high, in comparison the sign was much higher.

One of our City Commissioners spent about ten minutes discussing the actual height of the truck being a few inches less than fourteen feet. Did he miss the entire point that regardless of the height of the truck the CVS sign was MUCH higher. Rick Sasser's sign is 12 feet high, shorter than any milk truck I have ever seen, unless milk trucks now come in a lowrider version.

I guess it just bothers me that our City Commission can issue vague variances and then penalize people for trying to follow them. What is your opinion?


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