New Lenox planning commissioners considering sign code revisions said this week they want to avoid an overabundance of signs, but don’t want to interfere with business operations.
The re-examination was prompted in January by a request from Eagle Country Market for wall signs advertising an in-store bank, a dry-cleaning drop-off and pickup service and store liquor, floral and deli departments.
The code does not allow wall signs for in-store departments or for in-store businesses that do not have separate entrances.
The code may be too antiquated for today’s business conditions, Commissioner Wayne Doede said. “When this was written, we didn’t have a lot of things we have today,” he said.
The Village Board recently approved a variance so First Midwest Bank could post a sign outside the Eagle store, but it refused to relax the ban on signs for in-store departments, said Carrie Hansen, planning and development administrator.
Commissioners remained divided on how to regulate signs for in-store businesses.
“We’re trying to handle (that situation) like a multi-tenant commercial building,” Hansen said. “That building has a sign capacity based on its size.”
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