They should use a little of their Liberal/Progressive/Control driven
foresight and make a few bucks for the town, by means other than
over-assessing property values and traffic revenues, by charging a fee
on those folks who wish to have a moderate sandwich board outside their
establishments.
This might be the right time to do a test or pilot program; say during
Green and Gold week to allow our merchants to advertise a special or
two? They could pay a fee, say $5 a day, for this great privilege. Plus
think of all the fun the 'Nannies' could have coming up with the size
of the sign, the color it has to be, how far from the road, the
building, how high the lettering must be, how many days it could be,
etc.
In addition this could be a nice distraction from all their schemes to
control everything from the number of trees you can have, to the
extorting of 10 percent of a landowner's property, to packing their
multi-layer boards and commissions (e.g., the CC, DRB, PC, SRC, ZBA,
etc.) with a limited number of real Vermonters inside these groups of
un-elected bureaucrats, while trying to get the gullible town residents
to buy into a multi-million-dollar wastewater project, which will
benefit only a few and become a huge financial burden upon the already
overtaxed property owners in this community.
Signs may be worth a try. What do you think?
Charlie Kettles
Waitsfield
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