More signage news from in around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as business owners in communities near Johnston, Iowa have complained recently of sign ordinances they believe are too restrictive to meet their business needs. But the controversy has largely bypassed Johnston, in part due to a change in city ordinance years ago.

Dave Wilwerding, Johnston's community development director, said his department cleaned up the city's sign ordinance about six years ago to address the trend of using temporary signs such as banners, sandwich boards and mobile electronic boards to advertise sales.

A $25 permit is required for nonpermanent signage in Johnston, with exceptions for certain types of signs, such as real estate and garage sale signs. Applicants may request such permits for two "events" per year, and each permit granted is valid for 10 days, with one of the events eligible for a 20-day extension.

By comparison, Urbandale previously permitted temporary signs to be displayed for 40 consecutive days. The ordinance was amended to extend the limit to 100 days.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York the Election Day may have passed, but some of those political signs are still littering the landscape. Political advertisements, particularly lawn signs, are traditionally taken down after an election — sometimes even before by opponents — though some leftovers remain abandoned on the sides of roads like weeks-old road kill.

“Our policy is what you put up, you take down,” said Bill O’Reilly, spokesman for Rob Astorino, a Republican who defeated County Executive Andrew Spano. He said any remaining signs would be taken down. “Sometimes the other campaign does that for you before Election Day.”

A general rule for campaigns is that volunteers and workers are responsible for the signs they put up, O’Reilly said.

With so many regional races, particularly ones for county executive, district attorney, county clerk and scores of other contests, one need not go far to see that some signs dot the landscape.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as Roy, Utah has streamlined its sign ordinances after business owners spoke out to make sure they could get the signage they wanted. Electronic message center signs on poles will be allowed in community commercial zones that have at least 3 acres for their businesses.

However, to have those signs, businesses must get approval through conditional-use permits.

As the ordinance was originally presented to the council, electronic message center signs on freestanding poles would be allowed only in regional commercial zones (along 1900 West) and some electronic message center signs at ground level would be allowed in community commercial zones (all other areas in the city zoned commercial that have close proximity to residential areas).

The planning commission spent four meetings revising the sign ordinance, which was 30 years old.

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More signage news from in around the UK from Hants and Dorset Signs as new picture signs have been put up outside a library — to direct people who cannot read. And the signs have been installed to direct people to Westhoughton Library, just centimetres from an existing one.

A traditional sign pointing readers to the “public library” has been on the corner of Westhoughton Town Hall, pointing towards the entrance in Library Street, for decades.

But now Bolton Council has put up two new ones, with the Bolton Council logo, below the existing sign and above the entrance, at a cost of £759.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as RLO Sign, Inc., located in Sheboygan, has been awarded first place in the 2009 Sign Contest for non-illuminated exterior identification signage by the Wisconsin Sign Association. Judging was based on overall design, selection and use of materials. Judges were a panel of peers selected by the WSA.

RLO's award is based on the sandblasted, flagmounted sign at Greenseed Studios, 1011 Indiana Ave., Sheboygan.

The WSA was organized in 1970 to enhance and promote the professionalism, knowledge and image of its members and the on-premise sign industry. Through its programs it seeks to elevate the standards of manufacturing, installation, service and efficiency in the sign industry. The association also serves to establish in member firms a high regard for technical competence and fair dealing to promote a good public image for the sign industry.

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More signage news from and around the UK from Hants and Dorset Signs as a council backed down this week over a fine issued to a young mother for feeding the ducks with her 17-month-old son, pledging to adopt a "common sense approach".

Vanessa Kelly, 26, was given a £75 fixed penalty notice for littering last Tuesday, after a warden saw her and her son throwing bread at a duck pond in Smethwick Hall Park in the West Midlands. Ms Kelly, from Oldbury, West Midlands, was told she was not in a "designated feeding area", but today Sandwell Council dropped the fine and promised to improved signage in the park.

The council's deputy leader, Councillor Darren Cooper, said: "We will take a common sense approach to this matter and for this reason we will not pursue payment for Vanessa Kelly's fixed penalty notice while we improve signs at Smethwick Hall Park.

"The new signs will make it abundantly clear that feeding of waterfowl is not allowed at all in this park and that anyone observed feeding the geese and any other birds will receive a fixed penalty notice."

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as visitors to Canal Place won’t have to worry about losing their way thanks to plans by the Maryland Department of Planning to improve signage on the Great Allegheny Passage trail and other areas.

Signs posted on the trails “don’t seem to work,” said Regional Planner Bill Atkinson at Tuesday’s meeting of the Canal Place Preservation & Development Authority.

The Department of Planning has already placed metal disks in the cobblestones around Canal Place that will serve as mile markers and signs. Atkinson said the Department of Planning intends to take posted signs down and place them on walls around Canal Place and the visitor’s center instead this week.

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More signage news from in and around the UK from Hants and Dorset Signs as Welsh language protesters took to the streets in a campaign against a high street superstore. The Welsh Language Society – Cymdeithas yr Iaith – launched its own mock version of the Boots advantage card as members protested outside the Bangor store on Saturday.

The cards said "There are no points whatsoever for using Welsh". The Welsh Language Society is unhappy with Boots over the firm’s bilingual policy, claiming it falls well short.

Protesters also held a rally to support Osian Jones of Cymdeithas, who is facing criminal charges for painting slogans about the lack of Welsh language services provided by major high street stores in North Wales on their buildings.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as in Holliston, Massachusetts a decision by town officials to begin enforcing sign bylaws has some small business owners in town worried that their ability to reach out to potential customers will be impaired.

Last week, Town Planner Karen Sherman and Building Inspector Peter Tartakoff canvassed the town, handing out memos to businesses reminding them of bylaws prohibiting sandwich board signs on sidewalks and mandating the types and sizes of signs that can be displayed in windows.

Some business owners said they were disappointed in the move by the town, and that cheap advertising, especially in the form of clearly visible sandwich boards, is especially important in the current economic climate.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as The Department of Transport Australia will increase signage in the waters at Gegraphe Bay because of safety concerns. The signage will highlight areas for boating and boundaries for water skiing.

The department's Peter Kiely says the number of skiers using Geographe Bay is set to increase after the temporary closure of the Koombana Bay and Power House ski areas. The areas were considered a risk because of floating debris from Bunbury's crumbling timber jetty.

Mr Kiely says the signs at Geographe Bay will target all water users.

"You get even paddle craft and sail craft out there as well as speedboats and people going fishing, snorkelers and all sorts of things," he said.

"So there's all sorts of people using those waters, so it's important that all those people are aware where ski areas are, where vessels are permitted to go and where they shouldn't go."

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