One of the most annoying things that I experience on a very frequent basis is the absence of any kind of address sign(s) on may of the business buildings along the Main Street in our town. If I hadn’t grown up here, I swear I would never be able to find anything based on just being given an address! The vast majority of the buildings along the road need some kind of address plaques even if it is one of the numerous attractive lawn plaques that are on the market these days and can be bought online.

This whole address plaque issue is one of the things that I think makes a town more “user-friendly” to tourists and out of towners. And our town could really use the money that out of towners bring in with them. A lot of folks use the technology of today’s GPS units, but I mean what good is a GPS unit if it tells you that you’ve reached your destination and you look around for address signs and can’t find one anywhere?

I think that it should be part of the town code in downtown that easily seen address plaques are a requirement. And by easily seen, I mean easily seen from a vehicle from the road, not something tucked up under an eave so that you can’t even see the building or house numbers that can only be seen by pedestrians! I’m not really the type that likes to see more laws being passed but I do feel strongly about this issue and could debate it for hours if I had the chance to, but I’ll get off of my soap box for now.