Community Corner
Oconee County Attempting To Enforce Sign Ordinance At SR 316 And Connector After Long Delay
Code Enforcement sent letters to three sign permit holders at busy intersection, giving them until Nov. 17 to bring signs into compliance.
The Oconee County Code Enforcement Office has sent letters to permit holders for signs on three properties at the busy Oconee Connector intersection with SR 316, telling them they have until Nov. 17 to bring their signs into compliance with the county’s ordinance.
Code Enforcement Officer Paul Smith posted the registered letters on Oct. 17 to Jamie Boswell, owner of Boswell properties, and to two other sign permit holders, pointing out that the county’s Unified Development Code prohibits the installation of signs on the right of way of a public road.
On Nov. 17, according to the letter from Smith, the county will remove any sign that is not in compliance with the county ordinance.
The county has been aware that the sign for Boswell Properties is not in compliance with the county ordinance since at least April, but it had chosen not to take action because Boswell had claimed that the state didn’t care that his sign was in the public right of way.
Boswell is an Athens real estate broker and, since early 2013, District 10 representative to the 14-member State Transportation Board.
For more about Boswell and his sign, go to Oconee County Observations.