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Somersworth commission grants variance for larger sign at 240 Green Street with lighting limits
Summary
The Somersworth City Commission voted 5-0 to grant a variance allowing a 6-square-foot freestanding sign for a home-based alterations business at 240 Green Street, with a condition that sign lighting be off between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.
The Somersworth City Commission voted 5-0 on Feb. 5 to grant a variance allowing a freestanding sign larger than the one-square-foot limit for a home-occupation at 240 Green Street.
The variance permits a 24-inch-by-36-inch (6-square-foot) freestanding sign on two cedar 4x4 posts, with a maximum installed height of about 5 feet. The board approved the variance with a condition that any sign lighting be off between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.; commissioners specified a timer so the sign is dark during those hours.
The application before the commission was filed as a request by Karen Salkins to deviate from section 19.20.d.1.b of the city signage ordinance, which generally limits home-occupation signage to one flush-mounted, unlit sign on the main residence. Planning staff (Kate Crosley) summarized the proposal and the property’s history; staff noted a 1991 special-exception allowing a prior plumbing and heating home…
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