We just finished up some design work and happened to check our Facebook account and found an interesting post from a local small business owner. He was frustrated with the Indian River County Code Enforcement policy in regards to placing small business street signage in and around our local public roadways. Apparently Indian River County is not very cooperative when it come to this sort of marketing and it raises an interesting question. Why Not?

As graphic designers we are often asked to design these street signs for local small businesses, and there is a proven number of success stories behind each one of the small campaigns. Local businesses use the small discreet signs for many different reasons. Here are just a few:

-Advertising Current Deals or Sales
-Grand Openings
-Event Announcement
-Change in Locations
-General Branding
-and much more!

Every one of the above listed reasons for placing street signage in Indian River County do two things. They increase the tax revenue the county sees, and increase the amount of revenue these small businesses generate for themselves, employees, and sub contractors. It seems pretty simple to us. Let your small businesses market themselves and create more income for everyone. We pay your salary, and we would rather stop paying labor to remove signs that create what everyone needs right now. MONEY.

If you feel the same way as we do about this topic, we ask that you take a minute or two to sign the petition we created. We have embedded the petition just below this text and will be forwarding this to Indian Rover County Code Enforcement in hopes that they are willing to begin talking about revising their current ordinances regarding this topic.

SIGN THE PETITION!