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The City of Saline Planning Commission will seek public input on a revamped side ordinance.
The purpose of the amendments is to remove redundancy, simplify the general understanding and eliminate language that suggests sign content. The ordinance intends to do this while preserving property values, enhancing aesthetics and minimizing motorist distraction.
Planners discussed the rough draft of the sign regulations with Chet Atkin, Community Development Director, for nearly an hour on Wednesday.
Acting chair Dan Carroll suggested more outreach for public feedback.
Atkin said a good percentage of business owners think the current sign regulations are too expensive.
"We'll get very few residents and all business owners that say our sign regulations are too restrictive, and they want bigger," Atkin said.
Carroll said if a good percentage of our business owners think they are too restrictive, then maybe we should consider making them less restrictive," Carroll said. "This is something we would like or need public comment."
This issue will also go before Saline City Council.
The planning commission will explore the topic next month.
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Nice of the attorneys to clarify this language at this point rather than having the foresight to understand that language should never have been in the agreement to start with!
Perhaps the Township should have sought counsel from an attorney not involved in the original contract negotiations (and perhaps they did - do not know) before changing direction.
Final thought - perhaps the attorney(s) working with the Township on the agreement can provide an explanation as to why that language HAD to be as represented in the final version of the agreement/why protections against exactly what has happened were not put in place.
I’m curious as to why Mr. Marl has announced his reelection intentions, started campaigning and collecting funds, but has not done the paperwork to put his name on the ballot yet?
Marl says he's got his signatures.
Citizens of Saline are finally waking up to all the failures of our current city government. Girbach is bailing (for good reason).