Update : Follow-up on the news : LA PALMA : Replacement of Signs on Poles Proceeding
In a campaign to make commercial areas more attractive and less cluttered, the city and merchants are completing a project to remove all signs mounted on poles and replace them with monument-type signs on the ground.
Only a dozen of the old signs remain, city officials said, as merchants switch to more attractive ones of marble or concrete.
Under the replacement program, coordinated by the Community Development Commission, the city offered to reimburse businesses 50% of the cost of sign replacement, provided the city’s share did not exceed $5,000.
The cost-sharing offer proved to be very effective, Public Works Director Ismile Noorbaksh said this week.
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