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APPROVED 4/6/16 content goes we are no longer getting in the content business. 93 94 Paul Guthrie: The Waffle House sign stands up fairly high enough to land an airplane 95 under it and I was thinking, if it had an extremely bright flashing light it could be 96 distracting to traffic. Do the existing standards give you enough information to make 97 sure that doesn’t happen? 98 99 Michael Harvey: Yes. When you look at prohibited signs we have regulations that 100 prohibit beacon signs, animated signs, and trailer signs. We have prohibitions on signs 101 that flash or blink. We have established a standard for what constitutes a movable, 102 scrolling message to only occur a certain amount of time in a 24 hour period. So the 103 direct answer to your question, Paul, is that we have existing regulations that would 104 prohibit the repetitive flashing sign. 105 106 Paul Guthrie: My last question; in the matter of the cases I haven’t had a chance to 107 read up on any of those. Things that are statutorily criminal acts that might be 108 contained on the messages on the sign; does that still hold? If those criminal acts 109 regulate or can bring charges for what goes up on a sign, is that content they’re saying 110 they can’t touch or is it not taken into account? Some examples, direct threats to 111 human beings? 112 113 Michael Harvey: First of all, is that this ordinance as we did before exempts any sign 114 erected by the government. So any sign erected by the government saying you can’t 115 walk on this grass, subject to… we’re not regulating that it’s perfectly legal. If you’re 116 using a sign message to convey a threat or to encourage a certain course of action 117 that could be perceived as a threat that’s still a criminal matter and it would be 118 prosecuted by the sheriffs office and it’s the same argument as if somebody was on 119 their property and shoots a gun in a matter that creates a public safety hazard the 120 sheriffs office is going to respond, regardless of whatever ordinance gets adopted by 121 planning or the County Board of Commissioners. That’s still going to be an actionable 122 offense. 123 124 Andrea Rohrbacher: Real estate signs. Everything is crossed out… 125 126 Michael Harvey: It’s gone because we can’t regulate signage on content anymore. But, 127 I think what you’re asking is if you can erect a real estate sign at a residential district 128 advertising a house for sale; the answer ’s yes. That’s covered. Each residential district 129 has an allotment of allowed signage, just like commercial. So, however that gets used 130 is up to the property owner. The only provision is it can only be 12 square feet which 131 was the typical real estate sign limitation anyway. 132 133 Tony Blake: I think there’s actually a case where there’s 2 parcels of land on highway 134 54 and one is zoned in one manner and the other is zoned in another manner and both 135 are for sale. The way I read this is the signs would be, by ordinance, different. Or could 136 be, based on the zoning. 137 138