Home   Chamber News Your Signs and Displays may be illegal! Are you in violation of T.O.B. codes?, Jun-13-2003, 7:23 PM When it rains it pours! If bad weather, cold, rain and economic pit falls has not been enough to break the backs of small business owners we must all now reform our display, signs, pennant location, building colors and who knows what, to conform to what a group of civic association local leaders feel is not an eyesore. If your one of the business locations that has already been contacted to remove signage, displays, pennants, flags, advertising signs etc., its ok to be angry. The solution to the situation however is to work along with the Town Investigator within reason. Take a second look at your displays, ask yourself do they look like clutter? Redesign your displays behind your building line, keep them away from sidewalks and beautify them like your ads paid for in local papers. Your location is your showcase give it your best within reason. Signs falling down, in need of paint or letter touch up? As soon as the weather breaks fix them up! Again take a look at your location, if you have one to many signs saying the same thing, eliminate the duplicate sign unless it is a safety sign or signs required by the law. Look at your location in the morning if you see signs nailed or tacked to poles by your location remove them from the poles and throw them in the trash! This will help the Town Investigator clean up these illegal signs. Planning on placing a portable sign for a sale, make sure you pay for the proper permit before you rent the portable sign! Confirm the amount of time you are permitted to have this type of sign on location! In the future if you are going to add a new sign call the Town Investigator and secure the proper permit. This will elimate problems later, saving your company time and money. Daily in and out display be sure not to block walkways or driveways and pack them away at closing until the next day. The CDM Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors strongly suggests that every member that is visited by the New Town Investigator Mr.Pat Campbell or his staff obtain his direct phone number and suggestions how to comply within reason. If his request will cause financial hardships, or you feel the request is unreasonable please take a picture of the situation, write a letter to the CDM Board of Directors about the situation and send a copy of the letter and picture to The Miller Place Civic Association {attention Toni} and to the attention of the Town of Brookhaven Supervisor, John Jay LaValle. Calling the Chamber Office without a written letter of your situation to follow is fruitless!   Go Back