Post in Council vote Monday to allow commercial type signs in residential n...

May 21 02:58 UTC

Well it appears that several citizens spoke to council members on this issue
before the vote was taken tonight.  In response, major changes were made to the
proposal.

In a 3-1 vote, with Klausing voting NO, the rest of the council passed the law
allowing banners, but only on streetlights and not "other objects", and
prohibited their placement in residential areas of the city.  Thank you for
sticking up for residents.

Klausing voted NO, claiming that he thought in the future that if the city put
streetlights in residential neighborhoods, his vision is for citizens to have
banners hanging on their streetlights that had some message on them that was
specifically geared to their neighborhood.

Frankly, this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of.  I certainly
wouldn't want money diverted from anything else to make this happen.  But on
the other hand, if we had banners hanging from streetlights in residential
neighborhoods, I might be tempted to suggest the following slogans.

"Yup, the pathway below this banner is used by 4 people a day and only cost
taxpayers $3,000,000."

"This brown monument post on Dale Street south of B which is obstructing your
vision when trying to turn onto a busy street, was approved by city staff."

"Yes our parks system has $5,000,000 in backlogged repairs, but we still had
the money to pay for our city manager's Rotary Club dues for several years."

"Did you know that our city manager got a 3% raise his second day on the job?"

To close, I talked to the director of the Roseville Visitors Association after
the council vote.  She is the one who requested this law change.  She had no
problem with what was passed in the end because this is all she asked for.

John M. Kysylyczyn
K Solutions LLC, owner
3083 Victoria Street
Roseville, MN  55113
email: <email obscured>
home office: (651) 484-1384

www.ksolutionsllc.com
Mayor of Roseville, MN  2000-2004