Illegal Village Signs – 7/27/09
The Village has a reasonable Temporary Sign ordinance but gentle suggestions by me haven’t gotten it enforced recently.
I’ll use a club this time by using maps, pictures of the signs and references to the Village Code. If you know someone at the Village Hall, please suggest to them to look at this page.
If these aren’t illegal under the code, please register and enter a comment explaining why not.
Here is the first map.
Red Dots approximately indicate signs in question
Double click on the thumbnail to see the full image. The image was created with Monroe County mapping tool and the three red dots were added to indicate the locations of the signs in the following image.
The red dot in the upper left corner is the where the Brizee signis in front of Village Green.
2007 picture of Higgins sign in same place that Brizee sign is now
As you can see from this 2007 pictures of a JJ. Higgins it is well into the right of way let alone 10 feet back from the property line. Today a Brizee real estate sign approximately in the same place. This past winter I counted four different signs at the same time in this location.
Where is the property line? Based on the map image, I think it is a good 10 feet plus off the sidewalk. Given the 10 foot setback requirement, these signs have been 20 feet closer to the sidewalk than required by Village Code.
In the lower right of the map image above are two more red dots on the property on the southwest corner of Monroe and Sutherland. One is on the Sutherland side and the other is on the Monroe side where at the time this picture was taken around 9:50am on 7/25/09 there was another illegal sign.
The Pierson sign is the one of interest
Forget the sign to the right, it was gone on Monday afternoon, 7/27/09. But if were removed by a Village employee why did they ignore the Pierson sign?
It is a three time loser. A close look using the mapping software indicates that the property line is approximately where the tree is. This sign may not even be on the property let alone have a ten foot setback.
Then there is the size. The Village says four square feet maximum. With the sold sign on top and the realtor addition below, this one might make six or seven square feet.
For the third strike, check out the ‘Sold’ sign on the top. I think it was there all last week and was still there on Monday afternoon. That makes it somewhere more than four times the maximum 24 hours allowed by Village code. Look it up – I think is section 168-6.
On the same property is this sign around the corner.
Same three strikes
Yes, it legal to have a sign on each street frontage. But the same three strikes make this one illegal, too.
Isn’t the owner of this real estate firm a newly elected member of the Village Board?
Pierson real estate is an equal transgressor in the Town, too. Another post or two about Village signs first before going back to signs outside the Village.
Am I wrong? Register and Comment.
Am I right? Call the Village Hall and ask why they allow all these illegal signs.