By Bryan Navarro
June 22, 2011
EAGLE POINT, Ore. -- A patriotic sign causing some controversy in Eagle Point will be able to stay up through July 4th.
Cameron Callahan, co-owner of The Butcher Shop, put up this sign outside of his business. Landscapers moved the sign, but didn't know they'd posted it to ODOT's pumping station. The sign cannot be on public property and officials asked it be taken down.
City officials say their actions are not based on the message, but on the sign's location.
David Hussell, Eagle Point City Administrator, explains, we regulate numbers of signs, types of signs, but we don't regulate the content of signage.
"We are going to take the sign today and move it up to our property and we do have to take it down after the Fourth of July because the sign is against city ordinance," says Cameron Callahan, co-owner of The Butcher Shop.
The city is not asking The Butcher Shop to take down the sign because of it's message, but rather because they say The Butcher Shop has too many signs in general and must take one down.