{"id":1726,"date":"2009-07-08T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/08\/signs-signs-everywhere"},"modified":"2009-07-08T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:44:00","slug":"signs-signs-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Signs, signs everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of my favorite driving spots in Amarillo is eastbound on I-40, just as you come over the rise and head toward the Western Street exit.<\/div>\n

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You’re greeted by a swarm of signs. They’re free-standing signs. Billboards. Banners. Even a few blinkers.<\/div>\n

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The city has placed a 90-day moratorium on new signs until it figures out whether to impose a new sign ordinance on businesses. A sign panel has been appointed to study the issue. It’s makeup is an interesting one. It includes a lawyer, Roger Cox, who has railed publicly against visual blight; Dusty McGuire, founder of Keep Amarillo Beautiful; local clothier George Raffkind; CPA Don Marsh; and Gary Cox, owner of a sign company. I don’t know Gary Cox and Marsh, but I do know the other three.<\/div>\n

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It’s a varied panel, with wide-ranging interests and, perhaps, biases.<\/div>\n

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They should ask themselves at least this key question: Would allowing more signs along major thoroughfares, such as the aforementioned I-40 corridor, help or hinder businesses that already have signs up, not to mention business owners who want to clutter up our line of sight even more?<\/div>\n

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I keep wondering every time I make that drive: Who’s able to read even a fraction of these messages when you’re blazing by at 60 mph?<\/div>\n

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