Today, the Knox County Board of Zoning Appeals met.

Glenwood Baptist Church applied for a variance of the Knox County Board of Zoning Appeals for waiver to allow the movement/replacement of the existing Glenwood Baptist Church sign with a new EMC sign, waiver of height regulation from 8 feet to 10 feet and waiver of maximum matrix area from (1/3) 33% of total signage allowed on property to 46.2%. The property is located at 7212 Central Avenue Pike. CLT Map 057, Parcel 048.Property is zoned AG. (Commission District 7)

Kevin Murphy, Board Member of Scenic Knoxville (not even President, VP or am Officer of Scenic Knoxville) but always the “Kevin of NO” before any action of any legislative body. He always has “an entity” to represent.

Knox County said that if the church wanted to rebuild a new version of the 1975 sign, they could approve that. This 58 year blogger of an almost 21 year blog was in 4th or 5th grade in 1975. HELL, Bill Gates had not yet created a MAC yet. Six or Seven years later in 1981 or 1982 I taking typing class on a typewriter, church bulletins were printed on a mimeograph machine before even a copier was conceived or invented.

Then the BZA member for the district where the church is located (Seventh District) (appointed by Commissioner Rhonda Lee) made a motion for a sign, but forbidding an Electronic Messaging Sign.

I mean goodness knows obviously we can’t let people off I-75 see a message from a church and give a positive message or maybe encourage them to stop in out river city.

By the way, the Knox Planning guy even said there is no zone for the church to have an electronic messaging sign. They would have to do a Plan Change and that would be harder. How in the hell is anything harder than NO?

Here is the YouTube video of the meeting, starts at 25 minutes or so, watch your appointed volunteer BZA at work.