City of Topeka: Here's Your Sign

I attended this planning commission meeting a week or so ago in which they discussed an ordinance banning large signage on commercial vehicles:




If you want to claim to be pro-business, then cities need to allow small businesses the ability to promote their businesses in the most cost efficient means possible. For plumbers, electricians, home construction companies, movers, etc., their vehicles are the best forms of advertising they may have!

You may notice in that news story the back of my own little Business Center mobile...which was never in violation of this ordinance because the ad on it is so tiny. Still, I support small businesses and when neighbors complain because a small business owner parks his signed vehicle in his driveway but doesn't seem to care when someone parks their RV on the street, that says you either just don't like small businesses (and don't appreciate their impact on the community) or you don't want business in your neighborhood (which is more understandable, but would you rather have a vacant, deterioriating home in your neighborhood?).