Letter: We expect strong rules on signage to protect from blight

Editor, The Friday Flyer:

We keep hearing people say that anyone with a problem with the signage shouldn’t have moved here since we should have known this was “Conservative Country.” Yet, everyone I know who has lived here for decades indicates that the excessive political signage did not begin until the past few years.

It was a logical presumption that buying into a POA community would provide us with the peace of not having to see the plethora of political/election signage take over Canyon Lake for an entire year prior to the elections, and long afterwards.

We had every right to expect strong rules and regulations on signage, and to presume our “little bit of paradise” would be protected from this blight dominating our common areas, including flags and banners on boats and golf carts.

We didn’t expect we would have to be exposed to offensive messages such as the blackened out American flag (signifying opposition to our current government), the COORS flag (representing a racist skinhead organization) or the Confederate flag which has been condemned by the most conservative of Southerners as racist.

Since our board workshop, people who share my sensibilities on this issue have been told to leave Canyon Lake. We’ve been called “filthy hateful animals,” “un-American,” and “Godless.”  Apparently, one cannot share a different sensibility on what constitutes a peaceful, welcoming community without being slandered and raked through the coals.

People shouldn’t have to avoid the lake and roads on the Fourth of July, Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day because these American holidays have been misappropriated by the devotees of one man. Everyone in this community deserves to share in the beauty of our lake, parks and campground equally without feeling like we were just dropped into a political rally. We are better than this.

— Margi Austin

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