The City of Renton has established a Real Estate Sign Kiosk program in partnership with the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties. Council had been considering this action for many months. We had provided preliminary concept approval last year.
Twelve kiosks have been installed in major traffic corridors within the city. Our intention is to provide a nice-looking wayfinding mechanism for locating residential developments while eliminating a proliferation of illegal real estate signs that have contributed to sign clutter.
As stated in our press release below, the city is interested in reducing this clutter and helping stimulate additional home-buying and development activity in order to further its economic development goals for the community. The signs will also include directional panels to major public facilities, an additional benefit to the community.
Nothing says “this sign was designed by a blue ribbon panel” than the “CamWest Development” panel. Perhaps using the development name would make these things more successful/useful. I’m guessing there’s a story behind the use of the developer names vs. development names, and it was probably a hotly contested item over the course of several hours of meetings. Something that stupidly executed could only be done as a compromise.
How about sign pointing to parks and shopping. I see a few of those in Lynnwood.
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It’s not the signs directing people to the housing developments that are the blight on the neighborhood. It’s the housing developments themselves.
They were slapped up quickly, using the least expensive materials,big homes on tiny lots. A lot of people seem to want that. And typically, they have names like ” Fir Forest Acres” because there was a Fir forest there before it was clearcut to build these homes.
It’s so true. My husband and I will be looking at buying our first home in a year or two, and there is NO WAY they are getting my money. To me the age and size of the land, and trees that come with it, is worth more than the home. And I don’t want to live in some over-sized box that looks just like all the others on the street.
You’d never know I was a real estate agent based on my comments. But I’ve shown these houses a lot. And I’m sure they work for some people, but I’d much rather have a smaller house on a big lot with garden space and trees. I could care less about the granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.