A bakery in Conway NH is suing the town after being told their mural violates advertising signage laws. It seems the sign just has pastries and doesn’t otherwise advertise the business, so they’re calling it art and arguing it should stay. The town disagrees so they’re going to court over it.

The bakery is suing the town for $1, and permission to keep the kids mural up.

This is a small business fighting to keep kids art on display. Suing for $1 is a way to signal that are willing to do this at a financial loss, and that the display isn’t a means of enriching themselves but rather their community.

    • Mongostein
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      2 days ago

      Nah, the signage is the triangle section. The back piece is a mural.

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      3 days ago

      The state’s slogan is “Live Free or Die”, but they get so concerned about signage?

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      3 days ago

      “We can’t have all these colors, someone might feel an emotion looking at our strp mall strewn ‘downtown’!”

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      I’m thinking the little circle with the name is their actual “sign” that is/was in compliance with the ordinance.

      Pre-mural photos show a plain building, but the circle sign has shadow, which looks like it’s separate from the mural but I’m not sure.

      I’m pro n this mural. It looks fun, and if the local kids did it, they like it too, and it’s their town as much as anyone’s.

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        3 days ago

        What the town should do is just require that all buildings have murals without branding. That town would be cool.

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      Yeah this could be a 1st Amendment issue, if such signage, if its contents were not “commercial”, could otherwise be approved.