Last Friday, I got this email and photo from Steve Wilmot:
Griff,
We may have some confused tourists today as all the street signs for Division Street appear to be in the back of this City truck.
Thought you would find this interesting.
I took these photos over the weekend, assuming that the signage replacement was part of the Streetscape Task Force‘s downtown beautification efforts. The brackets used to hold up the signs appears to be consistent with the the other iron work used for the wayfinding signs, for example.
But maybe not. In the March 2 Admin Memo, TJ Heinricy, Streets and Parks Supervisor reports:
Staff has been preparing street identification signage that will be installed soon. These signs are part of the ongoing street signage replacement project.
As I was departing my corner office at GBM this morning, I saw Bob Will and ask him about this, as he’s a member of the Streetscape Task Force. He said that the downtown sign changes were not paid for out of their pot of money. However, the City had agreed to use signage that was “in harmony” with the wayfinding iron work.
I got this email from Streets and Parks Supervisor TJ Heinricy:
Hmm. Some of my photos show signs with both lower and upper case letters. But others show all upper case.
In case anyone is wondering WHY the City is doing this, we are mandated by the State to change out all our signs to those that have higher visibility. We don’t have a choice. And if I recall, the project was estimated to cost the City about $40,000. Unfunded mandate.