Belmont Shore welcome signs months away from completion, parking rates to increase to $2
A city commission is asking the City Council to approve a $420,000 welcome sign project and increase the rate of parking along Second Street to $2 per hour.
Replacing the Belmont Shore welcome signs will likely have to wait until 2025 as fabrication and installation of the new signs is expected to take up to nine months, according to an update given to a city commission Thursday.
The Belmont Shore Parking and Business Improvement Area Commission has been discussing replacing the signs since early 2022. Commissioners voted Thursday to recommend the City Council approve a design, which features the words “Belmont Shore Welcomes You” on the front and silhouettes of sea birds on the back.
Each sign is about 14 feet wide by 6 feet tall and will be illuminated internally to improve visibility at night, according to plans submitted by Selbert Perkins, the firm leading the design process. They would be placed atop 17-foot-tall poles at the intersections of Second Street and Quincy Avenue and Bay Shore Avenue.
The total cost of the project is about $420,000 and the City Council will have to sign off on the expense, which will come out of the Second Street parking meter revenue.
