Sign police

The City of Austin has a new jobs program. They are looking for angry, power hungry types searching for a way to assert themselves while working towards a pension. Job Title: Code Enforcement. Your job will be exciting! You'll get to harass business owners that are trying to make it in a tough economy! You get to write tickets for Austin icon, Mangiazilla for sitting on the wrong roof! You'll get to search out and find the evil doers that build illegal decks in their own back yards! Don't be distracted by the fact that you will be working under the solid waste department it is the only place we could squeeze the bucks out of! All applicants excepted as long as you can pull your ticket weight!
Todays rant is short and sweet. We have a sign police. They are usually retiring civil servants, ex police or sheriffs and they work out of solid waste. Appropriate. I know about them because a few of the iconic businesses in town have been getting tickets for their signs. Yes, signs! One of the cool things about Austin is some of the art that has been created in signs; the Hyde Park Fork and Knife, The Hyde Park Gym arm, the Mangiazilla, the Amy's Rockin' Cows, the Northwest Body and paint car crashing through the fence, the Gomi kitties. All beautiful pieces of art and SIGNS. Each one would be illegal today with the sign police. First, you can have one hang out over the street or sidewalk.(Right of way violation) Second, it cannot move or flash and Lastly, it cannot be on somebody else's building. (even if it is across the street from your business)
Come on City the ass end of City Hall hangs over 2nd street. These signs are art! Do we want the standard Dallas reverse channel letters everywhere? NO! Let us Keep Austin Weird not Keep Austin Standard!
Back to the Sign Police... It took a special proclamation by the Mayor to save Mangiazilla from being removed from Wheatsville Coop. Gomi kitties, kicked to the curb.... Instead of closing libraries send the code enforement to the the dump... Where solid waste belongs. Peace