Realty Signs and Community Rights
Another weekend and our otherwise beautiful community is blighted with those ugly bootleg development signs. They are “bootleg” because they are illegal. According to the county Environmental Management Agency, a permit must be given for them to be placed and permits are never, never given.
Not only are they bunched by the hundreds up and down the major thoroughfares, they are stapled to state directional signs, posted on utility poles and placed on county property. EMA states that it is stealing for a private citizen to remove them.
If they are illegal to begin with, what reasonable alternative does the local community have in eliminating them? Most of them appear on public grounds! They are an effrontery to the landscaping and appearance of this fine community.
It’s time for the people in this community to start calling our county representatives and agencies and demand that we are given the same attention that other communities receive. I don’t see any of these blatant offenses by developers in Mission Viejo, Irvine and Newport Beach.
Several homeowner associations have written Supervisor Bruce Nestande in Santa Ana asking for his assistance. Maybe it’s time for the squeaky wheel to get the grease.
It’s one mess on the weekends and it should be stopped.
CHARLENE BAILEY
Lake Forest
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