One to ponder: bicycle vs SUV signage
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From Cyburbian Tide: In Livingston, NJ a pizzeria was fined for an illegal sign. This sign was his delivery bicycle, parked in front of his business with the name of the company and number on it. But had the gentleman parked a Hummer out front with big (bigger than allowed on a fixed sign) lettering that would have been ok.
"I could park a Hummer out front with a big tacky sign and that would be legal," he says. "But I have to move this bicycle?"
Believe it or not, he's right.
Licensed commercial vehicles are exempt from the sign rule. Drive around Livingston and you see plenty of trucks and vans with big logos parked outside stores and businesses.
So what have you zoning officers... would you have pushed this hard to get a local businessman fined $500 or maybe the local zoning officer should have walked the businessowner through the variance process.
We would have ignored the darn thing. I mean, come on. You need to pick your battles.
If it looked something like this (from flickr so I assume it is OK to leach)
I would ignore it, on the other hand if it is clear that teh bike never moves and is unoperable, then no.
other option is to get a bicycle license tag from a city that offers them, then you can argue it is a licensed vehicle.
Check this place out, they must never have reviewed their fees by-law
Write this date down.....I agree with every word this man just typed!
What donk said. We'd let this go unless the bike never moved over the course of weeks/months.
I think it is wonderful when places deliver via bicycle. There was a Jimmy Johns sub shop in my college town that did it. They shouldn't be punished in any way. The code should be changed, and the pizza guy shouldn't have been fined.
Oh the ridiculousness!!
It sounds like somebody's holding a grudge against the pizza place. I'm alway suspicious when something so ubsurdly small gets fined and the insanely humongous violations are ignored for years -- who made who angry?
The code should be changed to accommodate bicycles. Presuming you mean 'bicycle' when you say 'bike' and not 'motorcycle'.
Plus, that zoning officer is being absurd with the enforcement.