It's Simple: There Should Be No Signs Like This Allowed In Hudson, Not Inside A Business Nor Outside!

By any standards of decency, sanity and civility, the obscenely bright,10-foot by 5-foot LED-illuminated, always changing, multi-color advertisement sign that showed up on North Fifth Street well over a month ago is a disgraceful, disrespectful obscenity that should not be allowed anywhere in Hudson.  Just ask the neighbors who live in the house they own directly across street.  I'd bet they can't heap enough praise on the lights and colors of the new "sign" they have trouble avoiding night and day.  This can't be acceptable, not even one of them.

Either City Hall want neighborhoods to be livable and neighbors to get along and live peaceful lives, or they do not.  It appears that Kamal Johnson, our Code Enforcement Office (indeed, the code itself), and possibly the entire common council have chosen the latter.  How would Craig or Kamal feel if they lived directly across the street, or above, a sign such as this?  How about Margaret Morris or Rich Volo?  You think it would make them better, healthier people living in a friendly, respectful community? Or more like zombies with no sense of place, afraid to go outdoors?  How about if every business up and down Warren Street and elsewhere had a vile and violent sign of this size and disruptiveness, with or without a sign permit from CEO?  Where is the common sense?

The years of shootings in front of this deli have quieted 
down recently. Now we have this violence in a different form, 
 perhaps equally destructive and unwelcome.

Pictures do not capture the actual amount of light 
emanating from this sign from hell.  When the images change, 
sometimes every two seconds, there is a blinding flash of light.

If our code were up to date, instead of stuck in the mid-20th century as it is, and the powers that be could get their shit together and act like they give a shit, someone at City Hall would have forced the deli owners to shut off their sign from hell weeks ago.  So-called signs like these shouldn't be allowed anywhere, especially in residential neighborhoods!  We need to come up with a different classification or name for them -- like uber-signs* or ultra-illuminated distractive LED signs -- to convey what they truly are, how they affect us, how they are so different from a conventional illuminated sign with one or two light bulbs, and how they are to be treated and enforced.  These aren't signs as much as they are visual jackhammers.  If we can keep chain stores from setting up shop in the city, we can, and should be able to, ban these repulsive so-called signs.  Now!

So healthy for children, especially!

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades...
AT NIGHT!

What exactly is it that you are trying to sell me? 
 A case of aspirin for the fucking headache I've had
for the past three months??

Where is Hudson headed if not down an abyss with no one paying attention?

*Coincidentally, as the lead picture shows, one of the 2- or 3-second-long ads (of at least a dozen) is for Uber Eats.  We need a "sign" like this to advertise for them?  Fuck that shit!