here's the problem, if you allow a 13 year old to have a sign, cardboard or not, for his business, even if it does only make $5 a month, then what do you do with the other people who make a sign and hang it? you can't pick and choose who can and who can't. it's either all can or all can't. I think it's stupid to make him take it down but I do get why. the thing to do is to get on the people who make the zoning laws and get them changed. these zoning guys are getting in the way of business every where. we have some of the strangest, makes no sense zoning laws around here. these guys have changed their name from zoning to design review which allows them a new level of PITA. now, if some one on the design review doesn't like the color of your sign, it won't get passed. Had a customer told he couldn't have his light purple and white sign which are his company colors because the town didn't like them. so on one hand I do get why these pinheads made the kid take down the sign but on the other understand just how stupid the whole thing is.