The four candidates competing for the open Parker Town Council
position are doing everything possible to ensure residents remember
their names for the Sept. 2 ballot.
One popular campaign tool is placing election signs in highly
visible spots around Parker.
Many times residents don’t know that a local election is
happening until they see the election signs, said Diane Bailey, an
existing and former campaign manger for various
candidates.
This election season, however, candidates have followed a
revised election sign code to limit the overkill of signs placed
throughout the town in the past.
Last November, when nine candidates vied for three positions,
almost every intersection and median was filled with election
signs.
“Last year on East Mainstreet from Canterberry Crossing down to
the courthouse, there must have been 60 signs, 10 signs for each
candidate,” said Bailey, Parker Planning Commissioner. “It was just
littered and messy.”
To limit the eyesore, the Parker Planning Department revised and
strengthen the code.
Candidates are restricted in size depending on where the sign is
placed. They must receive an owner’s permission to place signs on
residential and commercial property and are not allowed to place
them on the strip of land parallel to a road that is dedicated for
traffic signs.
To compensate for limiting the areas to place the signs,
election signs will be allowed to sit out longer. Candidates can
place signs 45 days prior to the election, which is compared with
15 days before the code change, said Parker’s code enforcement
officer Suzanne Freund in a letter to the candidates.