Proportional representation signs violating city bylaw removed
Local supports of proportional representation scrambled to take down campaign signs after learning they have been placed in spots that contravene a city bylaw.
Campaigner Jay Sanders said he thought the bylaw applied only to municipal elections.
“But I see that the bylaw does cover provincial matters,” he said Thursday in an email to The Citizen.
“The team and I will be moving the signs today.”
The purple and white signs urging people to vote in favour of proportional representation have been found in such locations as the lawn where Third Avenueue splits off from Fifth and at several spots outside the designated areas along Foothills Boulevard.
Signs are allowed on 14 spots around the city and along Highways 16 and 97 within city limits because those are provincial roads: Austin Road East at Highway 97; Foothills Boulevard and Austin Road; Foothills Boulevard and North Nechako Road; Foothills Boulevard and First Avenue; Foothills Boulevard and 15th Avenue; Ospika Boulevard and 15th Avenue; Queensway and Patricia Boulevard; Ospika Boulevard and 22nd Avenue; Queensway and Village Avenue; University Way and Ceremonial Road; Ferry Avenue at Highway 16; Ferry Avenue and Clapperton Street; and Tyner Boulevard at Highway 16.
Voters are to receive their mail-in ballots for the referendum between Oct. 22 and Nov. 2.