{"id":2642,"date":"2010-09-14T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/mcdonalds-denied-sign-variance-for-foxborough-store.html"},"modified":"2010-09-14T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:37:28","slug":"mcdonalds-denied-sign-variance-for-foxborough-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/mcdonalds-denied-sign-variance-for-foxborough-store.html","title":{"rendered":"McDonalds Denied Sign Variance for Foxborough Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/videos-mcdonalds-vs-foxborough-sign-variance.html\">Videos are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nFast-food giant McDonalds applied for a sign variance so they could have signs the same size as everywhere else, so they wouldn&#8217;t have to do a custom job. The Technical Review Committee (TRC) recommended against. Attorney Gary Moser summed up the opinions of 200 Foxborough residents who don&#8217;t want the added light from the sign and headlights. He also mentioned <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/corporate-mcdonalds-please-dont-build-a-store-in-my-front-yard-while-im-deployed-to-afghanistan.html\">Vince Schneider is being deployed to Afghanistan and doesn&#8217;t want the<br \/>\nadded lights when he gets back in six months.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nSurprise speaker Gary Minchew, a well-known local developer, spoke <em>against<\/em><br \/>\nthe variance, citing the arrogant behavior of McDonalds, which he said insisted on keeping<br \/>\na variance through his property he had granted First State Bank, even though he had not<br \/>\nintended it to be used by a fast-food buyer of the bank property.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to deny the variance.<br \/>\nPictures and videos to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Videos are here. Fast-food giant McDonalds applied for a sign variance so they could have signs the same size as everywhere else, so they wouldn&#8217;t have to do a custom job. The Technical Review Committee (TRC) recommended against. Attorney Gary Moser summed up the opinions of 200 Foxborough residents who don&#8217;t want the added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,321,3982,2,2583,21,1341],"tags":[8736,5452,5453,4228,304,8761,8880,1246,4583,8701,5454,7,8857,4477,8711,1168,6,2320,5455,4230,5456,5451,1013],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-food-and-drink","category-foxborough","category-government","category-mcdonalds","category-planning","category-zboa","tag-activism","tag-afghanistan","tag-americas-worst","tag-fast-food","tag-flooding","tag-food-and-drink","tag-foxborough","tag-gary-minchew","tag-gary-moser","tag-georgia","tag-lights","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mcdonalds","tag-noise","tag-planning","tag-traffic","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-zoning-board-of-appeals","tag-varmints","tag-vince-schneider","tag-vivian-valdivia","tag-vlczba","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}