Illegally posted signs should be taken down
This is in reference to Ernie Schiller's letter (Jan. 2) about illegal placards.
Our main intersection of Alamance Church Road and Southeast School Road at Alamance Elementary School is constantly being inundated with signs, and our neighborhood is vigilant about removing them on a regular basis. Neighborhoods have to protect their areas from self-indulgers.
For anyone's information, we check with the authorities. North Carolina's General Statutes, Chapter 136: Roads and Highways (paragraph 32), specifically prohibit erecting signs. Violators face a Class 1 charge.
We also checked with Duke Power, and they do not grant permission to attach anything to their poles citing the safety issue. In fact, they wrote us that we are doing them a favor by removing the signs and the nails. (Telephone service in our area is underground.)
So, neighbors and neighborhoods, take charge.
Gail Feddish
Greensboro
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These signs are not a new problem. Many are posted too high for easy removal. In July of 2005, a letter to the editor from D. M. Mitchell complained about illegally posted signs in Greensboro.
At a July Greensboro City Council meeting, there was discussion about these signs. Promises, Promises. Not much action.
On my blog I wrote:" There has been so much attention paid to limiting and banning legal, attractive billboards on private property near our roads. I can't understand why there has not been a loud outcry about these illegally posted signs within the right-of-way of our city streets.
I also posted this comment: "Every one of the signs has contact information on it, but apparently when city staff called the numbers listed, the folks who answered the phone would not identify themselves. I would think that it would not be hard to find out who pays the bill for a listed number. Who would put contact information on a sign and then not identify themselves when called? Sounds like a shady deal to me."
See:
http://greensboropeerpressure.blogspot.com/2005/07/ugly-illegal-signs.html
And:
http://greensboropeerpressure.blogspot.com/2005/07/illegally-posted-signs.html
I know the city staff and council are busy with other "important issues"; but, the beauty of our city is important also.
Posted on January 6, 2007 5:12 PM
Interesting take on it Diane. Never thought about tracking these folks back to the phone number. Seems like a faily easy way to get them to stop.
Either that or put cameras on every telephone pole in Greensboro. Knowing our city council, they'd take the second approach.
Posted on January 8, 2007 11:22 AM
I bet her lover has a Gail fetish.
Posted on January 9, 2007 10:38 AM