Hi Red Phone I was wondering what the rules and laws are in
Gilroy, if any, in regards to signs for garage sales.
Signs hanging around
“Hi Red Phone I was wondering what the rules and laws are in Gilroy, if any, in regards to signs for garage sales. I’ve seen a sign on Fitzgerald Avenue for the Cutler/Drake, I believe wedding, and it’s been up there with a little arrow for probably more than six months. I was just wondering whose responsibility it is to take care of those signs?”
Red Phone:
Well, good caller, before contacting Planning Division Manager Bill Faus about your inquiry, Red Phone has an common sense answer. The person responsible for removing the signs should be the person who put them up, in the case you mentioned, that would be the Cutler/Drake wedding party. Maybe they’re still on their honeymoon.
Anyway, Faus said: “Those (garage sale signs) are only allowed for the day of the event and they are not allowed on public property, or anything that constitutes as the public right of way.” Faus said.
That means telephone poles, lights road or city signs he explained. Faus said that often people will put the signs for their sales or events up on Friday nights and will stick them on anything they can, but he said that most of them are taken down by the end of the weekend. The only time city officials would take them down is if they are a safety hazard.
If they are not, the planning office operates on a complaint basis only, so if that sign has been there for more than six months and you’re sick of it, head down to city hall and file a complaint, and another thing to be aware of when noticing lingering signs is their location, county ordinances differ from city ones.
Thank you for your concern to keep our city scape uncluttered and this Red Phone also might be a reminder to anyone who may have forgotten about their weekend or event signage to get out and take it down.
noise complaint
“This is in regard that to noises complaint. I would like to suggest that the Luigi Aprea School that we live very close to use something else to alert the janitor when they need them in the office. Right now they use a very loud ‘Neer, Neer,’ blaring system sometimes as early as 7:30 in the morning and you can hear it throughout the neighborhood and for some reason they say they don’t have any better kind of internal way to communicate. I think that’s very unfortunate and not courteous to the people around you.”
Red Phone:
Good caller, your complaint is heard by Red Phone, you’d think a cell phone, pager or some other device might be better to alert a custodian than the system currently used, but if you missed the part in the latest column addressing noise complaints and the city’s efforts to aid them. Mayor Al said a very helpful thing to do is to call the city and have them come out to witness the noise. In your case, it might be just as easy to have the school sound the ‘blaring’ alert to see just how far and fierce it permeates your neighborhood.
“If the caller does call the city, then maybe there is something they can do. Hopefully the caller will call in to the city to give more specifics to help us out …” Mayor Al said.
To get started call Scott Barron, Codes Enforcement Officer for the city at 846-0264.
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