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4[/� /' APR 2 9 2014 <br /> K,+Cy L try 1 IJ <br /> I am a person who has a garage sale almost every year as I have slot of items <br /> left from when I ran the Art Barn 10 years ago. In order to get one antique in a <br /> box you had to get the whole box, so there were items that weren't quite <br /> colletible yet or were new, so I would store them, hence my sales. My sales last <br /> year were cut down by more than 50% due to having to place my signs in peoples <br /> yards away from the sight of the drivers on the roads. <br /> it is alot of work to put on a garage sale, moving boxes setting up tables <br /> marking prices preparing signs etc. <br /> Every year all year we are expected to maintain the grass between the road and <br /> the sidewalk, we rake and mow it and in the winter we clear the snow from the <br /> sidewalks. we are assessed for the area and we pay taxes to our city but, we <br /> cannot put our signs on them for one week when we have a garage sale. This does <br /> not seem fair. There are some people who do not remove their signs after the sale <br /> and most of them are the ones having a moving sale, I suppose they don't want to <br /> bother as they will be gone, but that should not jeprodize the rest of us. some <br /> put signs on light poles and this should not be done. I don't mind seeing signs <br /> and have not heard anyone complain to me about any of them including graduation <br /> or shower parties. <br /> when the signs are removed by the city people can't find the sales as many of our <br /> housing projects have many curvy roads. or are out of town several miles. <br /> older people make up about 33% of the people that come to my sales, they and I <br /> go to the sales for entertainment and exercise, better than going to a casino. A <br /> third are young people just starting out and cannot afford the high prices in the <br /> stores, with our economy still not good these sales are a must for them. <br /> unemployment is still high with many who have given up finding a job and now only <br /> one person working in the household. <br /> one of the biggest concerns is the safety issue of having the signs farther <br /> back. when signs are next to the road and you read them your eyes are still on <br /> the road, but when the signs are out in someones yard your eyes are completely <br /> off of the road and for a longer time as they are harder to read. we could see <br /> rear end crashes or people getting run over. <br /> I think dates and addresses could be written small on the bottom of the sign <br /> so that the people who leave them out too long will have them removed. most <br /> people pick them up as they cost alot to make, and take considerable time to <br /> make. Garage sale ads cost quite a bit when you consider an average item being <br /> sold is 50 cents so a $16 ad would have to sell 32 items, that's alot just to pay <br /> for the ad. <br /> we have so many of our freedoms taken away from us already and even if this is <br /> an old law on the books doesn't mean that it should be enforced to that extent, <br /> it instead could be eliminated. <br /> so lets give the person being paid to remove them more time to do something <br /> more constructive. If this is not resolved to the liking of alot of people just <br /> remember the council is an elected position and they can be replaced. <br /> 4w"t AJ <br />