NEW LAW RESTRICTS SIGNS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer

A committee has crafted a new town sign ordinance that will ban flashing, fluttering and spinning gadgets, limit the amount of window glass that can be covered and require temporary sign boards be fixed to the ground.

Last September the Town Board moved to crack down on the glowing glare and proliferation of advertising signs and banners along its main business routes, particularly Main Avenue in Wynantskill.

But Michael Miner, the town's building code enforcer, told elected officials then that if they wanted him to crack down on violators of the old sign ordinance, he would have to ticket every business in town. …