The Town of Victoria Park encourages the promotion of businesses within the perimeters of the Town by the use of signs, however there a few requirements that need to be met so that they don't cause a hazard or annoyance to residents, other businesses and visitors.
There are three types of signs that are commonly used in the Town.
- Portable direction sign - a portable, free-standing direction sign.
- Portable sign - a portable, free-standing advertising sign.
- Portable real estate direction sign - a portable, free-standing sign advertising a home open.
Portable signs require a permit, in accordance with the Town’s local laws.
The Town does allow one portable advertising sign per premises without a permit if it does not exceed one metre in height or one square metre in area. It must be placed or erected outside a business to draw attention to it during the opening hours of that business. It cannot be erected:
- over any footpath where the resulting vertical clearance between the sign and the footpath is less than 2.5 metres
- on a round-a-bout
- on a median strip or traffic island
- in any other location where, in the opinion of the local government, the sign is likely to obstruct lines of sight along a thoroughfare
- on any natural feature, including a rock or tree
- on a thoroughfare
- on a power or light pole, traffic light, road nameplate post or road traffic sign
- on any bridge or structural approaches to a bridge.
Portable direction signs require a permit, in accordance with the Town’s local laws.
The Town does allow one portable direction sign without a permit, provided that the sign is placed on a thoroughfare on an infrequent or occasional only basis to direct attention to a place, activity or event during the hours of that activity or event and it does not exceed one metre in height or one square metre in area. It cannot be erected:
- on a footpath
- over any footpath where the resulting vertical clearance between the sign and the footpath is less than 2.5 metres
- on or within 3 metres of a carriageway
- on a round-about
- on a median strip or traffic island
- in any other location where, in the opinion of the local government, the sign is likely to obstruct lines of sight along a thoroughfare
- on any natural feature, including a rock or tree
- on a thoroughfare
- on a power or light pole, traffic light, road nameplate post or road traffic sign
- on any bridge or structural approaches to a bridge.
Portable real estate direction signs are portable direction signs. They require a permit in accordance with the Town’s local laws.
The Town does allow three portable real estate direction signs without a permit. One outside the property at the advertised time it is being shown as a ‘Home Open’ and one on each of the nearest intersections on each side of the advertised property on the day of the advertised ‘Home Open’. These must be removed at the completion of that event. These signs must not exceed one metre in height or one square metre in area. They cannot be erected:
- on a footpath
- over any footpath where the resulting vertical clearance between the sign and the footpath is less than 2.5 metres
- on or within 3 metres of a carriageway
- on a round-about
- on a median strip or traffic island
- in any other location where, in the opinion of the local government, the sign is likely to obstruct lines of sight along a thoroughfare
- on any natural feature, including a rock or tree
- on a thoroughfare
- on a power or light pole, traffic light, road nameplate post or road traffic sign
- on any bridge or structural approaches to a bridge.
