Wellington Florida Real Estate News- Wellington's Sign Restrictions

Finally the Village of Wellington town counsel has decided to visit these way old fashioned rules on anti business here in Wellington Florida. It is about time! But even though there is some friendliness towards business, there is also continued restrictions and more...

So in the last town counsel meeting the village town counsel members decided to loosen up these tight restrictions on businesses in Wellington being able to use signs to promote their business.

Banner signs have always been against the rules in Wellington Florida. But what a pain that was to businesses who are holding grand openings or just opened for business and don't have their permanent signs in yet. After all, you do have to order those permanent signs, they have to be approved by the leasing companies and the village code compliance before you can ever install them. So the village really does a new business a disservice by not allowing them to have a temporary banner ad.

Here is a photo of what our Wellington Florida McDonalds looks like. This is as big as the golden arches get to be in our town. It makes the town look uniform and like a town instead of a city. You will notice they do not have any signs on their building.

The village of Wellington just initiated a request for the use of banner ads for businesses in Wellington! YEAH! It is about time! They will be voting on the banner ad issue in 2 weeks. If you own a business in Wellington Florida please make sure you contact the village counsel members and show up to the meetings to let your voice be heard.

This is what our gas stations look like in Wellington Florida. The photo below this one shows you what one of our gas stations looks like from the road. You can hardly tell there is a gas station here and that makes us Wellington and I don't think any of us living here want to take away from this landscape but a small sign with prices would be very helpful to the residents here.

The proposed ordinance will also allow for window signage to cover up 50% of the glass. They are also proposing that you can have internal banners on the windows showing towards the exterior of your business. I can't imagine having all these restrictions to deal with when you are trying to run your business. Another part of the proposed ordinance will finally allow A-frame signs with the tenant names on them to help promote your business. Gas stations would also finally be allowed to post their prices which has always been banned in Wellington. While I understand how the village wants the town of Wellington to keep its' great look and feel, I would like to know the price of gas before I drive into the gas station!  Gas stations would still not be allowed to do any promotions on their signage.

Equestrian Event Signage- There were different opinions from the counsel members as to restricting Equestrian even signs. They don't like that these signs are on public property either. That really makes no sense since the Village of Wellington benefits fro the income generated by Equestrian events. I wonder how mnay of these counsel people ever owned their own businesses? The counsel wants to make the Equestrian event signs, have them all uniform looking and post them for permanently with directional arrows on those signs to the events. One of the things that I like the most about the posting of the event signs is that it reminds me about the time and place of the events. Some of the members proposed giving the events permission to post the date and time of the event on directional temporary signs on the day of the event. Well, that is kind of like after the fact. That is inconvenient to the rest of us. One of the counsel members suggested putting a universal phone number on the permanent sign so you can call for the date and time of events. But that is also inconvenient because it is so much easier just to drive down the road and get reminded there is an event this weekend, that makes it front and center in your mind. When you have to remember to call you might even miss out on an event. Sometimes I think that the village counsel act like wannabe politicians who want to feel important and so they make up all this stuff that makes no sense making things more complicated than they need to be.

Commercial Signage- Most all the counsel members do not like the commercial real estate leasing signs that are popping up due to vacancies because of the economy. The mayor our town, Darrel Bowen even said that the commercial listing signs are, "ridiculous". While I agree that they are big and bulky I must stand by the land owners and leasing companies in being able to promote vacant spaces for lease. The Village of Wellington benefits from having businesses move into these vacant spaces so what is a little eye sore once in a while. It is not like these signs stay up year in and year out. It makes me wonder if any of these counsel members have ever owned their own businesses? If you are involved in commercial real estate leasing I would strongly suggest you to show up for the voting on these issues in 2 weeks to voice heard.

So make your voice be know, speak up, here is your chance to let the town counsel members know that you want to promote your business here in Wellington Florida!

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