What is the criteria for putting up a street sign?

Need help. My in-laws gave up a parcel of land that went from their house to the road, they gave it to the city with a promise that the city would make it a road. They got a cut in property taxes, and also will not have to walk as far to get the mail and the city will maintain the gravel street including snow removal and drainage ditch.

Problem is, the city has reneged on putting up a street sign. They are elderly and we are worried that in the event of a emergency, that first responders will have trouble finding the place.

The city agreed to name the street after them, had ordered a sign but now claim that there was a misspelling on the sign and now will not put it up.

The in-laws were instructed to change their address at the post office and utilities (along with all other mail) and to move their mail box away from the road prior to them putting up the sign.

I cannot find any regulations that concern erecting street signs on named rural roads. I have tried to call ODOT including the extremely promising sounding Ohio Department of Transportation’s Office of Traffic Engineerings Signing Engineer office, but there is no answer and no voice mailbox.

I assume that my little town doesn't have their own regs and that they follow the published state or county rules, but I want to find them and see if the city is in compliance.

Any ideas?

Ohio Lorain County City of North Ridgeville

Thanks,

Start with this: Ohio Sign Designs and Marking Manual

My local fire station sells sign like these so they can find your house.
Get a second one blank and at Lowes or sign shop buy reflective letters. Fashion up your own post.

The city doesn't care to do it so they likely won't lift a finger of care to what it looks like either.

More samples

The house is set back from the road - you cannot even see the house. they need a sign saying the street name, not the address. The address would be on their mail box and house.

The issue is, one of the houses that boarders the land the new road is on doesn't like them and is apparently buddies with the city engineer. His drive dumps out to the new street and he doesn't want the sign up (even though his address will not change).

I would be willing to buy and put up a sign, but I have a feeling that it would be taken down by the neighbor the first night.

Here's another idea. You are a small enough community...bother your mayor. Push the elderly issue. Threaten to contact The Lorain Morning Journal.

Pester your Fire Chief and Police Chief as well.

The squeaky wheel..

Yep, be the squeaky wheel. It sounds like someone dropped the ball on them.

Do you have a local TV news station or newspaper?

Can you call the local fire department (non 911 number) and let them know? They may have wYs to address things like that.

And out of curiosity, does the street show up on google maps? If not the sign is going to be the least of their issues.

Fire Department is a good place to ask. Around here the county fire service got legislation passed regarding street signs and house numbers.

Does the town have a Facebook page? Twitter? etc. Post your story there about the elderly...

Is it Nagel, Nagle, Naigel Rd?

I was amazed by your statements of inactive on the county's part as well as the weak claim of misspelling so I turned to Google.
The article above from 2013 is the epitome of inactivity and misspelling in Lorain County/North Ridgeville.

If not the same road, see if you can find the guy in the article who was the crusader of this issue (though I'm not sure if he succeeded.) You may want to follow Nagel road to see if anything changed since 2013.
Even if he didn't succeed, he learned some things and some names along the way that could be helpful in pointing you to the right direction.

Buddy up to the local highway/street superintendent.

In the old days, a bottle of prime spirits often worked. Of course such a thing would not be done today.

I assume there was some sort of contract signed? Was there anything in the contract about a street sign? If there was, I'd threaten to sue for the value of the land prior to the road being put in. I'd expect that a $10 sign would be put up pretty quickly.