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211 to advertise his Black Kettle‘Restaurant, located in Washington. St. Clair said he had permission from the owner of Greenfield Farm to put up a 20 foot sign opposite Gilson Whorton’s fruit stand on Route 211. (The fruit stand itself is advertized by a number of illegal signs which violate provisions of the county's sign ordinance.) "I sympathize with Mr. St. Clair’s position. He needs to advertize. All the businesses in Washington need to make their presence known to the people on Route 211,” said Candy Coombs, proprietor of The Country Store in Washington. She added however that if all Washington businesses put up advertisements, the approach to town would look "very tacky.”
Also according to Coombs, St. Clair would need approval from the Virginia Department of Highways to erect a sign on 211 in any other location other than adjacent to a business. Across the street is not adjacent to Whorton’s fruit stand, she noted.
“We have historically turned down signs of this nature since I’ve been on the board—that’s been 12 years—for the reason that the highway department doesn’t permit them,” Gardiner said. "The county has tried through the years to keep signs off the highways. It’s not in keeping with the zoning ordinance or in the spirit of the residents ol Rappahannock County,” he said.
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