The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners made changes to the county’s sign ordinance recently.
Changes during a special called meeting Tuesday included a new category allowing political information signs to be posted 60 days before qualifying deadlines or the date of legislative action calling for a referendum or ballot question.
Those signs can stay up to 30 days beyond the date of an election and have to be removed by the poster. Commissioners had established tighter time restrictions for qualifying-type sign placements in a 2015 vote, raising the ire of political groups.
The changes also spell out restrictions on the size of temporary signs, specify where they can locate in relaton to public rights-of-way and how they can be affixed. It also limits the number of signs per property.
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