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The INDEPENDENT, April 15, 2010
Careful where you put up signs or county will remove them for you
Spring is here and signs are
sprouting like weeds along
Washington County roads.
They’re getting out of control
and the Department of Land
Use and Transportation is
Receive
up to $
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pulling them up by the roots.
The blight of political, real es-
tate, work at home, and garage
sale signs will start to disap-
pear as crews begin their peri-
odic sweep of illegal signs.
According to Land Use and
Transportation operations man-
ager Dave Schamp, “Signs
placed illegally along the road
generate safety issues and
many citizen complaints, so pe-
riodically we concentrate on
rounding them up. Naturally the
problem peaks just prior to
elections but we don't discrimi-
nate – politics, real estate, in-
ternet access – we take them
all.”
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on the landscape, illegally
placed signs block driver visibil-
ity and pedestrian access, and
compete with important traffic
control signs for driver atten-
tion. They also damage irriga-
tion systems in landscaped ar-
eas.
The public should never
place signs in the road right-of-
way, which generally includes
the roadway, ditches, shoulders
and sidewalks; basically all the
area between the utility poles
on both sides of the road. Also,
signs must not be placed on
traffic signposts, power poles or
signal cabinets.
The majority of signs are
snagged by community service
workers who, under the super-
vision of county employees,
cruise the main roads favored
by sign owners. The confiscat-
ed materials are recycled or
disposed of at the landfill.
For more information about
Washington County’s sign reg-
ulations, contact the Opera-
tions Division at 503-846-
ROAD (7623) or wc-roads@
co.washington.or.us.
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