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Oconee County Sign Ordinance Violators

UPDATE 08-13-2006 - If you were out driving this weekend and passed by the locations where the Thornwood signs were being illegally placed you would have noticed they were absent this weekend. That is because the good folks at the GA DOT came by this week and dug up the galvanized pipe that had been driven into the ground and removed the anchor stakes that had also been driven in the ground. I can't thank the GA DOT enough for taking care of this hazard so quickly. I had attempted to contact people at the DOT on different occasions to no avail. Due to the lack of contact information on the DOT website I was contacting the wrong people. I finally made contact with Mr. Phil Copeland who is the "Right of Way Administrator" for the GA DOT. He responded to me immediately and notified his District Engineer who in turn notified the local engineer and he was on the problem immediately.

My only disappointment is that it appears the violator did not receive a much deserved citation or bill from the State for the clean up of their damage. In speaking with the engineers the feedback that I received was that they could not believe the extent the violator went to in placing the illegal signs. They said it was the most elaborate scheme they had ever seen anywhere in the State of Georgia. They were especially taken aback by the plastic tag proclaiming the legality of the signs. Hopefully this article will prove more effective than a fine. A fine is an event whose evidence of existence is lost in the bowels of bureaucracy forever. Whereas, this article will be lodged in Google and countless other Internet archives for eternity.


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