Editorial note: With so many residents escaping Illinois, this seems so apropos….
Renderings for a re-imaging of a water tower on U-Haul property located in Crystal Lake near the intersection of Routes 14 and 31. The image would include alternating “U-Haul” and “Crystal Lake” signage. (U-Haul via City of Crystal Lake)
The storage and moving company U-Haul has asked to repaint a water tower in Crystal Lake to include both city signage and the company’s logo.
The Crystal Lake Planning and Zoning Commission gave a thumbs up to plans to repaint the sign move forward at its meeting Wednesday.
“Our primary goal is obviously to clean it up,” U-Haul marketing company president Jeff Jones said. “It’s starting to look a little rusty at the bottom. We clearly haven’t done anything with it since we owned the property, and we are spending a lot of money to clean it up, so we’d like to put our advertising on it.”
The tower, located near the intersection of routes 14 and 31, is on U-Haul’s property. It was acquired in 2016, and is currently being used as part of U-Haul’s fire suppression system, Jones said.
The two U-Haul logo signs would each be 130 square feet, Jones said.
Several members of the commission said they felt the current signage – which dates back to before U-Haul purchased the site, when it was owned by Follett Books – was ugly and outdated and welcomed the idea of the city of Crystal Lake being showcased on the tower.
The advisory commission voted 5-2 in favor of the sign and recommended to the Crystal Lake City Council that a condition be set that if U-Haul leaves the property, the company would have 60 days to repaint the sign or remove the logos.
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