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_ APR 2 9 2014 aJ f\,+ c �f L e- S i & I am a person who has a garage sale almost every year as I have alot of items left from when I ran the Art Barn 10 years ago. In order to get one antique in a box you had to get the whole box, so there were items that weren't quite colletible yet or were new, so I would store them, hence my sales. My sales last year were cut down by more than 50% due to having to place my signs in peoples yards away from the sight of the drivers on the roads. It is alot of work to put on a garage sale, moving boxes setting up tables marking prices preparing signs etc. Every year all year we are expected to maintain the grass between the road and the sidewalk, we rake and mow it and in the winter we clear the snow from the sidewalks. we are assessed for the area and we pay taxes to our city but, we cannot put our signs on them for one week when we have a garage sale_ This does not seem fair. There are some people who do not remove their signs after the sale and most of them are the ones having a moving sale, I suppose they don't want to bother as they will be gone, but that should not jeprodize the rest of us. some put signs on light poles and this should not be done. I don't mind seeing signs and have not heard anyone complain to me about any of them including graduation or shower parties. when the signs are removed by the city people can't find the sales as many of our housing projects have many curvy roads. or are out of town several miles. older people make up about 33% of the people that come to my sales, they and I go to the sales for entertainment and exercise, better than going to a casino. A third are young people just starting out and cannot afford the high prices in the stores, with our economy still not good these sales are a must for them. unemployment is still high with many who have given up finding a job and now only one person working in the household. one of the biggest concerns is the safety issue of having the signs farther back. when signs are next to the road and you read them your eyes are still on the road, but when the signs are out in someones yard your eyes are completely off of the road and for a longer time as they are harder to read. we could see rear end crashes or people getting run over. I think dates and addresses could be written small on the bottom of the sign so that the people who leave them out too long will have them removed. Most people pick them up as they cost clot to make, and take considerable time to make. Garage sale ads cost qc�uite a bit when you consider an average item being sold is 50 cents so a $16 ad would have to sell 3Z items, that's alot just to pay for the ad. we have so many of our freedoms taken away from us already and even if this is an old law on the books doesn't mean that it should be enforced to that extent, it instead could be eliminated. so lets give the person being paid to remove them more time to do something more constructive. if this is not resolved to the liking of aloe of people just remember the council is an elected position and they can be replaced.