The StoreFront Project
The StoreFront Project is an ongoing community initiative aiming to establish and/or enforce local advertising ordinances to remove excess advertising on store fronts in order to improve community safety, aesthetics and social norms surrounding the misuse of alcohol, tobacco and vaping products.
Why it matters?
SAFETY – It’s dark and it’s late. The driver needs gas, but the closest station looks unsafe with all the walls and windows covered in advertising. The driver passes by for a safer looking store. Don’t lose business because of too much storefront advertising. Keep store fronts clean and clear. It’s just good business!
AESTHETICS – Thousands of dollars have been spent on making community entrances and downtown areas more attractive, yet there are stores within the community that make it look bad and put people at risk by having too much storefront advertising.
SAFETY AND AESTHETICS – There is more than one way to trash a community than littering the roadside. Too much storefront advertising is trashy too. It creates the image of a decaying community and creates safety issues by blocking the line of sight from the cash register to the parking lot.
Beautiful neighborhoods. Beautiful towns. Beautiful county. Except where local retailers with too much storefront advertising are spoiling the view and creating safety issues by blocking the line of sight from the cash register to the parking lot. Tell your city and county council that you want store fronts in Orangeburg, Bamberg and Calhoun counties to be beautiful and safe.
