By Cindy Hoffman

Staff Reporter

(Feb. 23, 2023) Ocean Pines’ communications committee is exploring the idea of electric signage in the community and wants to hear from residents.

The survey can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GG6FRHX and takes less than one minute to complete.

“We will be tracking responses for three to four weeks,” said committee Chair Cheryl Jacobs.

Jacobs hopes to clear up two misconceptions about the signs. She wants people to know that changing the one sign at the North Gate does not require removal or change of any of the remaining signs.

“The proposed sign is not a neon-type sign like commercial ones; it is just a digital electronic version of exactly what’s there now but with the ability via wifi capabilities of making changes more timely and more safely,” Jacobs said. “The committee suggested the one sign change as a prototype to see if it warrants other locations to be changed in the future.”

The sign is not part of the current budget. The committee has proposed changing just the one at the North Gate entrance at a cost of about $20,000.