I believe that the village board is planning to discuss the potential for advertising banners that would be stretched across Mequon and/or Pilgrim Roads.
It seems that this would fly in the face of the village effort to control signage as to height, width, and location. This was done to help maintain the ambiance of the village as well as to protect one business from another in terms of how well each sign could be seen. We didn't want obtrusive signage, or so I thought.
How unobtrusive would a six foot wide sign stretching some sixty to eighty feet across either Mequon or Pilgrim Roads be? What about the hazards created by gawkers not paying attention to their driving?
Where would this end? I presume the intent would be to have these signs stretched across the roads for May fest, for example. Would we then find it appropriate to have a banner for the football team going into tournament play? If so, then what about girls tennis; or the track team? Then what about the pink ribbon campaigns, or the "remember our troops" campaign? What about the Warchix if they placed first in an event? Where does it end? What starts as one or two a year could easily escalate to one or two a month. Everyone with a cause would desire a banner.
This is one Pandora's Box we should leave unopened. We recently opened one that will almost certainly come back to bite us; we don't need another.
