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Signage Policy
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Statement
The Town of Mahone Bay intends to regulate by policy the placement of private signage
on Town property including road shoulders, posts and utility poles.
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Purpose
The Town of Mahone Bay seeks to minimize the use of temporary private signage
(commercial, elections, etc.) to:
- Reduce plastic waste impacts on landfills and oceans.
- Reduce visual clutter in the Town.
- Contribute to more equitable and accessible elections by reducing the need for
candidates to secure significant funding for the production of signs to be erected
on public property.
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Scope
This policy will apply on all property owned or leased by the Town. The Signage Policy
will repeal and supersede any and all previous policies held by the Town of Mahone Bay
regarding private signage on Town property.
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Provisions
No private signage may be installed on Town property, including but not limited to road
shoulders, posts and utility poles, with the following exceptions:
- Overhanging signage on a commercial premises permitted by the Traffic
Authority under the Streets and Sidewalks By-law / Land Use By-law.
- Sandwich board signage permitted by the Traffic Authority under the Land Use
By-law.
- Official municipal election signage in the following designated locations:
- Edgewater Street - Greenspace adjacent to Comfort Station
- Main Street - Bridge over Ernst Brook
- Main Street - Green Verge in front of Town Hall
- Main Street - Greenspace adjacent to turning loop (Blockhouse boundary)
- Main Street - Green Verge in front of Mahone Bay Civic Marina
- Other such non-commercial private signage as has received expressed approval
by motion of Council, as listed in Schedule A to this policy.
Signage installed without approval under this section will be removed.
Clerk's Annotation for Official Policy Book
Date of notice to Council Members of Intent to Consider
[minimum 7 days notice]
__October 28, 2021 ____
Date of Passage of Policy
__December 14, 2021___
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Town Clerk
Date
Schedule A
- Off-premises Commercial Sign (T. Ernst Forest Products / Labyrinth Walk with
GRACE) at Edgewater Street / Clearland Road*
- *Permitted under prior (now repealed) Off-Premises Uniform Signage
Policy
- Third-party Commercial signage installed on Town-owned waste receptacles
(various locations)*
- *Permitted under contract with receptacles supplier
- Mahone Bay Museum signage on Edgewater Street near VIC and Main Street near
Freeman Veinot Road turn loop
- Mahone Bay Tourism & Chamber of Commerce signage on Edgewater Street near
VIC and Main Street near intersection with Fauxburg Road
- Mahone Bay Area Lions Club signage on Edgewater Street near VIC and Main
Street (near Freeman Veinot Road turn loop and near Waste treatment facility
laneway
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