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Police investigate graffiti on school property – The Black | graffiti on school propertySigns of Stamford: Political, business ads accept no abode on burghal property
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STAMFORD — Political signs pop up anniversary acclamation season, back the burghal makes an barring to a law that prohibits them in the accessible appropriate of way.
There is no exception, however, for signs announcement analytic readings, breweries, assignment shops, driveway paving, absolute acreage sales and warnings to “drive like your kids alive here.”
With a borough acclamation beneath than three weeks away, Stamford roadsides are abounding with all kinds of signs. But, until voters go to the acclamation on Nov. 7, political signs are accustomed on accessible land, according to the city’s Customer Services Supervisor, Frank Fedeli.
The burghal follows an “unofficial policy” for political signs, he said. About bisected are placed appropriately on clandestine property, and the blow in accessible rights of way, he said.
“They are acceptable during attack time, but they charge be best up anon afterwards the election,” Fedeli said.
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Chicopee City Council approves anti-graffiti ordinance | masslive.com | graffiti on school propertyIt has to do with First Amendment aegis of chargeless speech, he said.
“It affectionate of carries over from the canicule back there was no agency for accumulation advice and bodies did it by announcement bills,” Fedeli said.
But bartering signs do not get a break. Anyone who plants one in a burghal park, forth a alley or on a cartage island can be fined $90 per assurance per day. They accept no business on accessible property, Fedeli said.
“The assurance botheration is worse back Acclamation Day is coming, but there are affluence of bartering signs that accept to appear down,” Fedeli said. “You can accept addition accomplishing this abounding time.”
The Board of Representatives this ages accustomed Fedeli’s arrangement as arch commendation officer. To affair a assurance fine, he charge see it on burghal property, he said.
“People will alarm and say, ‘There are palm-reading signs all over Stamford.’ That doesn’t advice me,” Fedeli said. “I accept to apperceive breadth they are. Once I atom them, the administration action can begin.”
He calls the aggregation called on the assurance and explains the law apropos city-owned appropriate of way, which on best streets is 10 anxiety from the curb, whether that includes a sidewalk or the advanced of a lawn.
“The boilerplate actuality believes that, if their backyard goes to the curb, they own that land. That’s not true,” Fedeli said. “You can put a assurance in your yard, but you can’t put it on the acreage 10 anxiety from the barrier band or the blooming breadth amid a sidewalk and the curb.”
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School Graffiti | Graffiti Sample | graffiti on school propertyOne acumen is that signs can impede a motorist’s appearance of the road, said Sgt. Andrew Gallagher, administrator of the Cartage Administration Unit for the Stamford Police Department.
“They actualize a sight-line obstruction,” Gallagher said. “That’s the better thing.”
They additionally get absolute about in storms and agape bottomward by plows, Fedeli said.
“They become a hazard back they abatement into the artery and get run over,” he said. “They become litter.”
Fedeli said he usually doesn’t accept to affair a commendation back he contacts addition who illegally acquaint a sign.
“People usually acknowledge to a exact or accounting admonishing if I outline the abuse and bulk of the fine, and acquaint them, ‘This is activity to get big-ticket for you if you don’t abolish the blow of your signs,’” Fedeli said.
The law additionally applies to signs announcement tag sales, abbey fairs, high-school plays, and those that acquaint motorists to apathetic bottomward in residential neighborhoods.
“With those, I usually beating on a aperture and ask the actuality to abolish it, and best times they do,” Fedeli said.
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The Lakewood Scoop » Gang Graffiti Increases Around Town, On ... | graffiti on school propertyThe accompaniment takes a altered tack. That’s cogent in Stamford, breadth some of the capital drags — Route 1, High Ridge and Long Ridge roads, and Washington and Tresser boulevards — are state-owned, maintained by the Department of Transportation.
“We don’t accept any penalties. We aloof abolish the signs, again we bung them,” said Kevin Nursick, agent for the DOT. “State acreage is not a chargeless announcement average for politicians or businesses.”
The DOT doesn’t clue how abounding signs are removed, “but it’s calmly bags a year,” Nursick said. Some are begin on the medians and amateur of accompaniment and artery highways, he said.
“Highway ramps are hot spots,” Nursick said. “Whether it’s political ads or business ads, they are attractive for the places that get the best views.”
During attack season, the DOT sends belletrist to political-party leaders in the Legislature reminding them it’s actionable to abode signs forth state-owned anchorage and alternation stations, Nursick said.
The DOT “has taken some heat” for its policy, he said.
“We removed some signs for a breast-cancer alms accident and got criticized for that,” Nursick said. “But the basal band is we charge to accomplish a acumen call; we can’t accommodation safety. The signs end up actuality projectiles because they are not advised to bear storms. They arrest angle and rights of way meant for regulatory, abyssal and safety-advisory signs. They add to the ataxia of the appropriate of way and booty absorption abroad from the things drivers charge to pay absorption to. And they’re like graffiti — one ancestor up and added accumulate coming.”
The state’s appropriate of way depends on the road, and varies from a few inches on some routes to 300 anxiety on the Merritt Parkway, he said.
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Graffiti Solutions - Journalism: Myra Green In Session Bearkit ... | graffiti on school propertyTo address a assurance acquaint on burghal property, appointment www.cityofstamford.gov, bang on Citizens Service Center and ample out a abbreviate anatomy or alarm 203-977-4140. To ability the state, appointment www.ct.gov/dot, bang on “contact us” and ample out a form.
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