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APPROVED 4/6/16 Michael Harvey: No, because there’s still a master prohibition on signs over 12 139 square feet in a residential district. 140 141 Tony Blake: Right, I’m thinking about these 100 acre things where they put the big 142 board sign up and one’s zoned commercial and the other ’s zoned agricultural. 143 144 Michael Harvey: Now from that standpoint, commercial to residential, yes. You could 145 technically have a different advertising sign. Because we can’t and don’t establish… In 146 that context from commercial to residential you’re 100 percent right. 147 148 Paul Guthrie: I do have another question. The section on golf courses. Can you sort of 149 talk through what that means? I’m a little confused on the language… I can’t decide 150 what would be a sign in the context of the golf course besides saying green 1 and…? 151 152 Michael Harvey: The free standing sign, a wall sign on the building saying club house 153 this way, grill this way, here’s our specials at the grill, keep off grass, etc. We tried to 154 capture what could 155 be necessary, what is a reasonable allotment for people to live in, and you are correct, 156 with a golf course it is primarily hole 1,2,3,4,5. But, we can see directional signage, 157 which we can’t regulate by name anymore. We can just give you an allotment. 158 159 Craig Benedict: Can sports fields put signs in the outfield? 160 161 Michael Harvey: It would be based on the zoning designation of the property of where 162 the facility is located. And then, yes, they can erect signage within that allotment. We 163 can no longer say, you can have advertising limited to x,y,z. Right now for parks 164 public you have a total sign allotment of 300 square feet, as an example. For 165 recreational facilities, regardless of their location, we have a specific limitation in 166 here… I’ll have to get back to you on what it is. 167 168 Patricia Roberts: What about private property. Say you’re holding an event on a private 169 property. Specifically thinking, if you have a horse show with signs for each jump. 170 171 Michael Harvey: It’s going to be based on the zoning of the property because we can 172 no longer assign allotment based on the type of sign, like we used to. 173 174 Craig Benedict: Are farms exempt from signage? 175 176 Michael Harvey: Farms are exempt from zoning, period. So, yes, sir. 177 178 Paul Guthrie: You may want to think about some wiggle worm in the signage that 179 accumulates over time… 180 181 Michael Harvey: The problem is I can’t write an ordinance that isn’t definitive because 182 then I’m being arbitrary capricious and I hold you to a standard and then I try to be 183 wiggle room for Buddy and you sue me. And you’d be right to do so. So we have to be 184