Like a lot of other Montgomery County residents, I was wondering how the heck the Step In Time chimney sweep people were able to get away with posting signs all over the county parks.
I see a lot of signs like these put up illegally in the parks, but usually they are removed immediately by either county employees or anti-litter activists. The Step In Time signs, however, were placed high up, out of reach, on many different tennis courts and ball field back stops.
I just figured that they were posted so high and so well that they were harder to rip down. And with recent budget cuts I also figured the county was spreading its employees’ time thinner than ever, so maybe the county just hadn’t gotten to it yet.
Well, it turns out the budget connection goes like this: Step In Time is sponsoring portable toilets for some of the parks this year. Citizens who asked were told that the company was permitted to hang the signs in exchange for the sponsorship, much to the irritation of many park users who find them to be, in the words of one of my neighbors, “visual pollution.” Others have called into question the legality of such sign-posting, citing MNCPPC’s own rules and regulations.
I’m really curious to know what other people think about this.
1 comment:
I guess it boils down to look at a few signs or have nowhere to do your duty. Maybe they can put the signs on the port-a-potties they are sponsoring? lol. I don't like it personally, but desperate financial times requires some creativity to get by. Hopefully, the sponsors can be non-offensive ones. Don't want to see the "Meet Cheating Housewives" site posting signs up.
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