Reference Library

Signs

• Municipal Examples (Check with each town directly to make sure you have the current regulation)
  • Fitzwilliam
  • Londonderry
  • Milford
  • Newbury
  • New London 3/13/07
• "Saving Face: How Corporate Franchise Design Can Respect Community Identity", APA PAS #452, June 1994
• "Sign Regulation for Small and Midsize Communities", APA PAS #419, November 1989
• "Judge backs electronic sign ban", June 27, 2007, Concord Monitor
  • Correction
• "Electronic display signs banned", August 1, 2007, Concord Monitor
• Carlson's Chrysler v. City of Concord
  Argued: April 3, 2007 Opinion Issued: November 8, 2007 (electronic signs, commercial speach)
  • summary of the case (Ben Frost Plan-link posting 11/9/07 (see additional annalysis in the NHMA law lecture on signs below)
• "City wins appeal on sign ban", November 9, 2007, Concord Monitor (see additional annalysis in the NHMA law lecture on signs below)
• See "Sign Regulations and Home Occupations: Accessory Uses, Difficult Issues"
  Presenters: Attorney Diane M. Gorrow and Attorney Maureen L. Pomeroy,
  Soule, Leslie, Kidder, Sayward & Loughman, PLLC
  NHMA law lecture #2, Fall 2011
  Accessory uses are subordinate and incidental to principal uses, but they can generate their own major land use control issues. This lecture examines the authority of municipalities to regulate signs on town and private property, state laws on political signs and signs in right-of-ways, and the many constitutional limitations on regulation. This lecture also reviews the often controversial use of residences for home occupations and problems created by expansions of those businesses.
• Sample sign ordinance, simple and fairly restrictive

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