Leander cracking down on signs in public spaces

From KEYE, Januaary 8, 2009...

There's a crackdown on roadway signs in Leander. The fine for right of way violations goes from $50.00 to $500.00. The city says this is an effort to clean up intersections.

A sign for a beautiful manufactured home sits on a Leander corner at a busy intersection. And it sits in the city's right of way. John Curtis drives around town spotting signs that are not at least eight feet away from curbs or in back of phone poles. The city increased the fine to $500.00 hoping that forces folks to pay attention to the ordinance.

"There was a severe problem with these bandit signs throughout intersections polluting the sides of the road,” said Curtis a Leander code enforcer. “By again by instituting this increase in fine and letting people know the problem has decreased."

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