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Punta Gorda businesses ask city to ease temporary sign rules as LDR rewrite begins
Summary
Vendors and property owners urged the City of Punta Gorda to allow temporary ‘‘feather’’ flags and other street-level advertising; council and staff said the sign code will be examined as part of a pending Land Development Regulations rewrite and noted county-owned parcels create separate rules.
Business owners and vendors told Punta Gorda City Council members at a July 7 small-business workshop that current rules limiting temporary street-level advertising make it hard for customers to find set-back businesses.
June Connors, a vendor at the Punta Gorda Mercantile, said her stall is set back from the street and that shoppers regularly tell her they did not know the Mercantile existed. “We were just wondering what we can do to maybe help advertise that whole mall area, but especially the Mercantile,” she told the council.
The matter was echoed by other downtown merchants and by Realtors who said they rely on feather flags and…
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