I need to complain about excessive open house real-estate signs
on weekends. I do realize it’s a tough market, and I feel for the
real-estate people. But lately it’s been a hazard, especially at
Mantelli Drive and Wren Avenue.
Enough with open house signs!
I need to complain about excessive open house real-estate signs on weekends. I do realize it’s a tough market, and I feel for the real-estate people. But lately it’s been a hazard, especially at Mantelli Drive and Wren Avenue.
This weekend I saw about 15 sandwich signs with balloons. Coming from the park you have to get kids off their little bikes and out in the street to be able to go around the signs. They block the sidewalks, one after another. They know they are not supposed to do that, but now it’s become a frenzied free for all. Where do we complain?
Red Phone
Dear Trippin’:
Nature has a way of correcting things when they get out of balance.
As a real-estate agent, the first thing you need before putting up an open-house sign is a house to show and potential buyers to show it too. With fewer numbers of the latter able to afford loans, you’ll likely see agents pulling out all the stops.
Whether the excessive signs are acts of desperation or merely a sign of the times is really not the question – no sign can obstruct a sidewalk.
The person you need to contact is the city’s code enforcement officer, Scott Barron, at 846-0264.
get up off that thing!
I’m calling in response to an editorial about walking versus busing to school. I walk my son to school, and we live about a mile away. I see people driving who live a block and a half away from school. I hear a mom complaining the other day about how long it takes to get through the car line to pick up her child from school. She said it takes about 25 minutes to get through the line and then her car juts so far out into traffic that she is worried about getting hit. I asked her where she lived and she said about three blocks away. I didn’t even know how to respond to that.
Since we started walking to school, I’ve lost five pounds and have the best tan since I went to Hawaii.
Red Phone
Dear Made for Walking:
This is becoming epidemic in Gilroy. Red Phone wishes it had a nickel for every call or e-mail from frustrated drivers who are just trying to get to work or the market and come to a complete halt in front of schools because parents believe their time is more valuable than anyone else’s. If these folks can’t figure out that blocking traffic is unsafe and rude, then simple reminders like a beep of your horn isn’t likely to help much .
If parking one’s car a block or two away and walking a child to school is too much to ask (certainly it would be for the mom you described), then perhaps the only cure is for one of Gilroy’s finest to sit out there with a ticket book and start boosting city revenue.
If you believe police presence is lagging, call the police chief or one of your elected officials. Their contact information is posted on the city’s Web site: www.ci.gilroy.ca.us.
