Colbath

The first fire was reported near the intersection of Colbath Avenue and Ventura Boulevard during the late hours of Oct.

When Colbath discussed the ordinance at last month’s meeting, he painted it as a way to facilitate more public art in town.

“There’s no part of writing that where we try to limit any kind of speech,” Planning Board Chairperson Benjamin Colbath said at a March 28 meeting.

“If they had done a seasonal mural on the wall — covered bridges and sunflowers and what have you — and it did not represent what your business is in, then it would be more likely to be a well-respected piece of art and not construed as a sign,” Colbath said at the August meeting.

But Board Chairperson John Colbath said the board has to work with the ordinance, which was approved by voters, and that there is a process to change that.