If you’re placing signs advertising your business, yard sale or non-profit event in the city right of ways between the sidewalk and the curb, you might end up paying for it in cash.
Burlington Mayor Shane McCampbell is going after the practice of putting up signs in the city right-of-ways, which is already not allowed by city code. He spoke during a Monday night work session. “Just out of control, it really is. If your going to have a yard sale, people feel like they can put sticks in every place on right of way property. If your gonna have a free pork roast or raising money for somebody, which i think all of these things are good but everybody has to play be the proper rules. I am really, really frustrated with how people have no respect for this ordinance.”
McCampbell and councilman Tim Scott have been personally reminding business owners not to put signs in right of ways, but McCampbell says that some businesses are simply ignoring him. “There has to be order and people have to respect that and the only way seems to me is if you get in their pockets.” Said McCampbell.
The ordinance contains a provision allowing the city to confiscate signs and charge the owners $10 to get them back. Development Director Eric Tysland says that the city can also take legal action against offenders, taking them to court for municipal code infractions.
