City cracks down on sandwich board law
The City Council decided last week to crack down on merchants who use illegal "sandwich board" street signs on city streets to promote their businesses.
The Neighborhood Preservation Division will issue two notices and then a citation to repeat offenders. Each citation is $25.
Before notices are issued, the city will make every effort to get businesses to comply with the city sign law, said Dyane Matas, the city's neighborhood preservation officer.
The City Council also instructed the staff to conduct surveys of areas with the illegal signs and eliminated a permit fee for temporary promotional signs such as banners and large balloons.
Some small businesses said the City Council's action could force them to close shop.
Onizuka closes nearby street
The section of Lockheed Martin Way between Gates 1 and 2 of Onizuka Air Station in Sunnyvale closed at 6 a.m. April 9 as part of an ongoing effort to increase security at the base.
CalTrain and light rail shuttles as well as Santa Clara and San Mateo County buses were rerouted beginning April 7.
Bus stops and shuttle pickup points will be located in the following places:
On Mathilda Avenue just south of the intersection of Mathilda and Lockheed Martin Way; on Lockheed Martin Way just south of Onizuka Gate 2; and on 11th Avenue.
Since the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia last June, all U.S. Space Command installations, of which Onizuka is one, have reviewed force protection procedures.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, April 16, 1997.
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