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APPROVED 4/6/16 explicit to avoid… 185 186 Paul Guthrie: There is a risk to that, of course. The risk is that it gets overturned and 187 you lose all your control. 188 189 Michael Harvey: Yes, exactly. That’s what’s happened with Gilbert already. I will remind 190 you all that state law, if you have a building construction site and you know the wraps 191 that do advertising; by state law that’s not a sign. So if you wrap a building site… That 192 type of construction signage is exempt from local sign regulation already… Any safety 193 sign erected by the government or in a public or a private right of way that’s for safety 194 purposes is already exempt… And please, you all have a tendency to email, I’d like 195 you to continue to do that. So email if you have questions or comments or 196 suggestions. I’m more than happy to take your emails, and I’ll make sure that the 197 responses go to the group as a whole so you can see. But what I’m hearing you all say 198 is if I can pay a little more attention to the Rec uses so that we’re not being overly 199 restrictive and just make sure that the allotments that we’ve recommended are 200 reasonable. Gilbert is what Gilbert is and we cannot have content based regulations so 201 we’ll move forward with the Attorney’s Office and get you the final product next month. 202 203 Paul Guthrie: I’m assuming that you’re talking about signs erected on either private 204 property or leased property. You’re not talking about public ways? 205 206 Michael Harvey: No, sir. 207 208 Paul Guthrie: Because a lot of the things that we’re talking about occur in a public way. 209 Some of those are not legal. 210 211 Michael Harvey: If, for example, someone erects a political sign in the public right of 212 way this ordinance didn’t regulate it to begin with and we don’t regulate it anyway. We 213 leave that up to the Department of Transportation. Snipe signs, which are those small 214 advertising signs that usually did an offset advertising for services or whatnot, those 215 in the public right of way while they’re not allowed by this ordinance, we don’t 216 regulate in that right of way. So, we leave it to DOT. We still prohibit painting signs on 217 rocks, and erecting signs on utility poles but, if you place it in the right of way it’s a 218 DOT problem. 219 220 Andrea Rohrbacher: One more question. Because you can’t regulate content that 221 means that a company could use their logo on a sign whether it looked good or not? 222 223 Michael Harvey: Correct. Which also means we can no longer make the 224 determination of what constitutes lewd, or inappropriate content. 225 226 Andrea Rohrbacher: That’s what I was getting at. 227 228 Paul Guthrie: Unless it violates a statute and that’s up to the sheriff. 229 230