Signs

Setting out signs comes under county zoning ordinances. On private property certain signs are allowed with the owner's permission. For information call Zoning Enforcement at 324-1300.

Virginia law governs signs in roadways and in the right-of-way area alongside roadways. On the back of every stop sign in our community, the law is cited in writing.

Private signs may not, by law, be attached to utility poles, stop signs or other street signs or traffic control signs.

You can help make our community more attractive by calling the numbers on illegal commercial signs and asking them to remove them. Often a sympathetic, polite phone call will result in the removal of the sign with no hard feelings. If you desire to make it an anonymous call, dial 1167 first. It is the lack of policing of these signs that causes their number to grow. The county Zoning Enforcement clerk to whom one reports this problem will tell you that it is under instructions from the Board of Supervisors not to spend time taking the signs down or prosecuting, but is to refer complaints to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). VDOT tells callers that they do not have the staff to police the problem and asks you to please go ahead and remove the offending signs. It is shameful that we cannot solve this problem. Clearly fines are appropriate and would pay for the cost, as would a proposed bounty system.

See also YARD SALES.