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and other county roads. “It’s getting more and more junky,” he said. Mayor Jean-Yves Lalonde of Alfred-Plan- tagenet explained during an interview fol- lowing the counties council session that the committee’s recommendation is not just a response to the series of billboard- style signs erected along County Road 17 in protest against an asphalt plant devel- opment proposal. “It (highway signage bylaw) has been on the county table for a few years now,” Mayor Lalonde said. “No, it’s not because of that.” Mayor Lalonde noted that local housing developers are concerned about the im- pression some highway signage makes on potential investors. “We are trying to promote tourism and economic development,” he said. Members of No Zoning for Asphalt Plant (NZAP), a local citizens lobby group, erected the protest billboards on private land bordering County Road 17 and its right-of-way as part of a campaign against
an asphalt plant that was proposed for de- velopment in the Jessup’s Falls Escarpment area. Last December the township council approved a resolution to protect the es- carpment against heavy industrial develop- ment. The protest signs still stand along the county road because NZAP wants the UCPR to change the Official Plan for Prescott- Russell and remove the mineral aggregates area designation for the escarpment. Clermont told counties council his staff will need to first review what other munici-
palities and counties have done with bylaw regulation about highway signage. “There’s no bylaw (for us) right now,” he said. Individual municipalities may or may not have their own signage bylaws which their staff are responsible for enforcing for both commercial and private signage. Those by- laws may or may not be applicable to sig- nage along county roads. A UCPR signage bylaw might be something for local bylaw officers to enforce.
GREGGCHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
PLANTAGENET | The idea may or may not have started when protest signs started popping up in Plantagenet about a pro- posed asphalt plant. But those signs are not the sole reason that the counties council is thinking about a signage con- trol bylaw for county roads. The United Counties of Prescott-Russell council (UCPR) has accepted a recommen- dation from its public works committee to have Public Works Director Marc Clermont and his staff prepare a report on commer- cial and other types of signage along coun- ty roads for review at a future session. The report will include recommendations for drafting a bylaw and policy guidelines deal- ing with signage along county roads. Champlain Township Mayor Gary Barton expressed concern during the counties council April 24 meeting about the state of highway signage along County Road 17
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