As reported recently in the North Carolina press - illegal signage can cause problems. Folding sidewalk sign boards. Strategic street-corner signs. Intersection direction signs. All are tools of the trade some Southport business owners passionately defended this week as the city's sign code came under official review. But city officials say a contagion of sign clutter is making Southport streets unattractive and unsafe. And, they say, many of the signs are illegal under the city's sign code.
Four business owners, all defending their promotional signs, spoke during the public comment section of Southport Board of Aldermen's Thursday meeting. The backlash came just two days after sign ordinance enforcement was discussed by the Southport Planning Board.
"We are talking about something which is extremely sensitive," said Phillippe Arroyas, developer of The Cottages at Price's Creek.
Arroyas said that even though he knows his signs are in the city's right of way, they help guide people to his business, which is not on the main thoroughfare.
"It is very bad timing for this," he said of limiting signs during the summer tourist season and in a struggling economy. Arroyas said he used to employ 40 people building houses, but now he employs just six. "I have $5 million worth of property out there, and I will go bankrupt if I cannot advertise."
Other Southport business owners expressed concern about how, exactly, enforcement officials will decide which signs to allow and which signs to pull.
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