Richmond News
The majority on Richmond city council voted to ask its staff to look at changing the city’s election sign bylaw.
A motion from Mayor Malcolm Brodie asks city staff to examine how signs can still be visible on boulevards but not cause unsightliness.
At Monday’s general purposes committee meeting, Brodie brought forward the motion with several recommendations as to the placement of signs around the city.
The recommendations, he said, are a way to “promote and educate the public on who is running” during an election, while addressing concerns of too many signs in certain areas of the city.
“We want to express viewpoints, we want to educate and motivate people to vote… but we need some reasonable limitations to have a situation that is not so unsightly,” said Brodie. …