Hitchhiker’s Guide to Sign Permits

Permitting scenario: Landlord wants to permit all code-compliant signs on an existing building that is being renovated. Municipality will not entertain zoning review without tenant artwork on the proposed signs. Question to Zoning: What happens if we supply the art and the signs get approved, then the tenant changes their mind and wants to rearrange the art? Answer from Zoning: They will have to start the zoning review process from scratch. Question to Zoning: How is this different from reviewing signs with blank faces and applying for zoning review for the face decoration once the space is leased?

Answer from Zoning: Here is a copy of the code. If you want to have a seat and wait for the zoning officer to come in, you may do so. Checking watch: It’s 8:45 a.m. Officer is ‘in’ 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. every day.

Complete Brain Squad survey and realize the answer to life, the universe and everything is not “42” and no Babel Fish can translate this conversation to make any sense of it.

Source: Edward DeZuzio, Butler Sign Co., Wayne, NJ