Project 365 Day 10

Why is THIS not covered under the sign ordinance?

This wasn't going to be the topic of tonight's posting; I wrote one last night about Trinity and Greg Iles, but this building just struck me as I was leaving the mall today.

Natchez has a pretty strict sign ordinance; it's supposed to protect the view of all the historic buildings and such and to provide for continuity. It also has more holes that Swiss cheese and is 34 pages long.

Signs can only be certain sizes, certain heights, there are special rules for billboards, realtor signs, political signs, etc. The city fathers want them to be visually pleasing.

I want to know how the above monstrosity slipped by the planning commission. I had to play with the colors of the photo to get it to resemble the true color of the building. Loud, screaming yellow. In a city where tourism is one of the, if not the top, industry, how can they let this sit on one of the main highways into town?

My rant for the day. Chris goes back to school tomorrow and I have got to get both of us more organized this year. Lockers, schedules, homework. At least he gets a study hall this year! And his teacher is trying to get us a set of books to keep at home. That would help a lot. We had to track down the custodian almost every day last year to let us into his room to get something he had forgot. Ah, the joys of parenting a boy with ADHD.

Have a great night!