My friend up on the northeast side of Fort Wayne sent me a photo of a sign that was turned in a week ago to the Sign Police. Well it is still there and I am shocked!
When I received the photo I told my friend it was hard to tell if it was in the rightaway. He said it was right under some overhead lines. I told him you could not see it on the photo. He agreed but swore it was under the lines.
I looked at the GIS site for Fort Wayne and you can tell the entrance marker was right on the edge of the rightaway. Gosh, do I use the photo or not? Maybe the city had been out and looked and it was not in the rightaway!
So I climbed in the trusty bucket of bolts and headed out to Maplecrest Road. Sure enough there it was just north of Tier Road, on the east side of Maplecrest.
I turned onto Midfield and turned around in a fellow's driveway. I pulled back up the intersection so I could sight down the wires running overhead and a telephone pole. Yepper, the sign was clearly in the rightaway.
I told my friend to call again Monday and complain. Maybe the candidate with the sign has a deal with the Sign Police, that if one leg of a sign is on private property it is legal. Could be, but one would think Dr. Crawford would want to lead by example over exception.
When I received the photo I told my friend it was hard to tell if it was in the rightaway. He said it was right under some overhead lines. I told him you could not see it on the photo. He agreed but swore it was under the lines.
I looked at the GIS site for Fort Wayne and you can tell the entrance marker was right on the edge of the rightaway. Gosh, do I use the photo or not? Maybe the city had been out and looked and it was not in the rightaway!
So I climbed in the trusty bucket of bolts and headed out to Maplecrest Road. Sure enough there it was just north of Tier Road, on the east side of Maplecrest.
I turned onto Midfield and turned around in a fellow's driveway. I pulled back up the intersection so I could sight down the wires running overhead and a telephone pole. Yepper, the sign was clearly in the rightaway.
I told my friend to call again Monday and complain. Maybe the candidate with the sign has a deal with the Sign Police, that if one leg of a sign is on private property it is legal. Could be, but one would think Dr. Crawford would want to lead by example over exception.
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From what was said about the sign locations, I would have taken a tape measure, and did a "reccy"..If the street doesn't have a sidewalk, then anything within TWELVE FEET of the street is "fair game" aka TAKE IT DOWN or lose it!
B.G.
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