Real Estate
Ban on ‘House For Sale’ Signs Again Up for Consideration in New Canaan
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New Canaan’s legislative body is looking into what it might do to create a ban, at least temporarily, on real estate ‘For Sale’ signs, weeks after real estate organizations in New Canaan abandoned the widely discussed effort. Town Councilman Steve kkKarl said that members of a committee he helps lead will meet with the chairman of the Planning & Zoning Commission to study how Greenwich accomplished its own ban “because if we want to get this thing going, we are going to have to mirror what Greenwich did.”
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“And it is sort of a halfway agreement between the real estate offices and with the town,” said Karl, co-chair of the Council’s Bylaws and Ordinances Committee. Saying prospective homebuyers identify properties online and that ridding New Canaan of hundreds of ‘For Sale’ signs would improve the town’s appearance, the New Canaan Board of Realtors, with support from the New Canaan Multiple Listing Service, announced in June that a six-month “trial ban” would start in July. But before the month was out, the plan was scrapped.