Robinson Manager Rich Charnovich hopes that a revision of the sign ordinance can stop a proliferation of banners and temporary signs.
"Our ordinance, to be honest, is rather antiquated," Mr. Charnovich said at Monday's township meeting.
He said he'd been reviewing ordinances in other municipalities, and would get together with solicitor Sam Kamin to draft some options.
"Different communities have different attitudes on how things should go," Mr. Kamin said, from highly restrictive to rather lenient.
The township in the fall started cracking down on businesses using temporary signs. Hundreds have been removed, but there are more businesses than the staff can handle, and loopholes in the ordinance allow businesses to put signs up as long as they take them down again when they're told to.
Planning officer Rick Urbano has worked with Mr. Charnovich on the issue.
"There are a few things we could add to help out businesspeople and still not leave the township looking so cluttered," he said.
Another possible change in township business was proposed by newly elected commissioner Ron Shiwarski.
"I'd like for us to look into instituting a comprehensive road program," he said, which would analyze paving needs on a continual, long-term basis and "eliminate some of the guesswork and politics from our road paving program."
Township engineer Michael Meyer, of Remington, Vernick & Beach, said it would cost $20,000 to $25,000 to launch such a program. It would involve rating roads based on their condition and their use, and planning several years in advance which ones will be paved.
Mr. Charnovich said he would like to put the program on the township's Web site so residents can see when their streets will be paved.
First Published: March 13, 2008, 9:45 a.m.