August 20, 2009

ARB Overruled in Sign Case. Comments (26)

The town has been wrong about signs for years. For once, they are right.

From the Sun Gazette:

The council voted unanimously to overturn a June 18 ARB ruling and allow HSBC Bank to use its corporate logo on its facade sign at 214 Maple Ave., W., in the Vienna Shopping Center.

ARB chairman Shirley Damon, who owns a gallery and framing business in the shopping center, said allowing logos now would be unfair to tenants who had been denied them in the past.

But John Kelly of DMS Sign Connection Inc. said the shopping center's owners will present at the ARB's Aug. 20 meeting a master sign plan allowing logos the facility. HSBC Bank officials had planned to have only a pylon sign at the shopping center if the council did not approve a building sign with logo, Kelly said.

Council member George Lovelace said the sign did not detract from the shopping center.

“I couldn't find anything that would make this application invalid,” he said.

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