This commercial sign at 66 Highland Road must go, Bristol's zoning enforcement officer says.

A Highland Road resident is in trouble with the town for installing a free-standing sign on her front lawn that advertises a home-based architecture business.

Yvette Yatchmink, of 66 Highland Road, has been given until Thursday, May 15, to remove the sign, which advertises the services of architect George S. Burman of the same address. Town codes do not allow free-standing commercial signs for home-occupied businesses.

This is not the first time the sign has been an issue. In 2004, Ms. Yatchmink applied for and received a town permit for a free-standing sign, but according to Bristol zoning enforcement officer Edward Tanner that permit was issued in error. Subsequently, Ms. Yatchmink was asked to remove it and instead flush-mount it to the house.

She did, and for about three and a half years, the sign was flush-mounted onto the house. Recently, though, the sign was taken off the house and re-installed on the pole, a few feet from the street.

— Ted Hayes