Village Council Considers Florist Sign on Residential Property
Palatine village council considers allowing 76-year-old Kinsch Village Florist and Garden Center to install a sign (10 feet wide and 5 feet high) on residential property, which would point passers-by to the out-of-the-way third-generation family business, reports Doug T. Graham, Daily Herald.
Owners Ken and Diane Kinsch explained to council members that because their business is surrounded by residential property, their business is asy to miss. The proposal of a new sign would help alleviate this and bring some much-needed attention to the store. The sign would be erected on residential property, something the homeowners agreed to allow, writes Graham.
Whil Mayor Jim Schwantz is interested in helping out such a longstanding business in the community, he’s concerned of the precedent it may set. Graham notes that “it is against village code for a business to install a permanent sign off its property” and if the Kinsches are given clearance, Schwantz believes other area businesses may seek to build signs “along busy streets blocks away from their property.”
“We certainly can open a can of worms here,” Schwantz said. “If we deny it of course, then we are not business-friendly, which is not the case. Everybody up here is sympathetic to (Kinsch’s) plight.”
Currently, plans to move forward for the Kinsches are currently on hold while the village staff work to draw up an exception that approve their sign without granting permission to all other area businesses interested in a similar venture.
The discussion will be continued at the next council meeting in February. The Kinsches are also willing to make the sign smaller.
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