Amador County – Amador Count Supervisors voted Tuesday to allow up to three permanent banners for public services offered by businesses in Commercial and Manufacturing zoned areas of unincorporated Amador County, excluding city limits.

All banners are limited in size, and Supervisors agreed on a change from one public service banner of 60 square feet, to allow for up to three public service banners for any one business, as long as the three banners’ total combined square footage does not exceed 60 square feet.

The language of the public service banner exemption was changed after a request by Feed Barn’s Susan Manning, who in an email to Supervisors said she needs a kitten adoption banner for six months a year. She also needs a dog adoption banner for one week each month, and she needs a Tri-County Wildcare banner for wild animal rescue year-round.

Supervisor Richard Forster said it was somewhat tailored to fit Feed Barn, but let’s face it, she adopts more cats than Animal Control, and the county benefits from the adoptions.

Supervisor Ted Novelli said places like the American Legion might also have multiple public services to advertise at the same time, such as blood drives, book sales and benefit dinners.

Novelli asked if businesses would need to get the Board to approve waivers with each banner they used to advertise public services. He said he would hate to see that required every time a business changed a banner.

Planner Cara Augustin said once the banner for permanent public service was approved by the Planning Department, they do not have to be brought back into the department for the next time they are used.

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