# Antrim Recycling Barrel Sign: Vector/Print Handoff Planning status updated: 2026-09-11 The landowner has approved the message and selected the 24 × 36-inch sign. Ownership of both parcels is confirmed. Field measurements, final placement, backboard selection, and support design remain open. ## Completed artwork - `antrim_recycling_sign_24x36_compact_editable.svg` - **Selected sign size.** - Exact artboard: 24 × 36 inches (6 square feet). - Portrait layout suitable beside or centered above the backboard. - All wording remains live, editable SVG text. - `antrim_recycling_sign_24x36_compact_print.pdf` - Exact PDF page and trim size: 1728 × 2592 points (24 × 36 inches). - One page; vector geometry; DejaVu Sans Book and Bold embedded. - `antrim_recycling_sign_24x36_compact_150ppi.png` - 3600 × 5400-pixel high-resolution review/print raster. - `antrim_recycling_sign_24x36_compact_preview.png` - 720 × 1080 review image rasterized from the compact PDF. - `antrim_real_basketball_backboard_mockup.png` - 1536 × 1024 site-concept image. - Shows a commercial framed basketball backboard and rim, tapered catch net, restrained barrel, and compact sign on an independent side crossbar. - Concept only; the selected backboard's factory drawing controls all brackets. - `antrim_recycling_sign_60x36_editable.svg` - Archived maximum-size option. - Exact artboard: 60 × 36 inches. - ViewBox: 6000 × 3600 (100 design units per inch). - All sign wording is live, editable SVG text. - Installed font used consistently: DejaVu Sans (Book and Bold). - Uses the same wording and green-check/red-X concept as the compact sign. - `antrim_recycling_sign_60x36_print.pdf` - Exact PDF page and trim size: 4320 × 2592 points (60 × 36 inches). - One page; vector geometry; DejaVu Sans Book and Bold embedded. - Text remains searchable/extractable in the PDF. - `antrim_recycling_sign_pdf_preview.png` - Low-resolution review image rasterized from the final PDF. - `export_svg_to_print_pdf.py` - Reproducible, dependency-free exporter for the SVG elements in this design. The PDF has an exact trim-size page but no external bleed area. The warm-white background reaches the trim edge, and the visible border stays inset. Ask the selected printer whether it wants a larger bleed box, crop marks, a CMYK conversion, or a particular output profile before production. Do not scale with "fit to page"; print at 100%. ## Design notes The raster reference used a New Hampshire mountain/forest welcome banner, two very large behavior statements, explanatory copy, and a roadside/recycling footer. The vector rebuild preserves that hierarchy while using: - consistent margins and dividers; - larger open space around the check and X; - simplified vector icons that reproduce cleanly at any size; - a restrained dark-green, warm-white, mountain-green, water-blue, approval green, and warning-red palette; - explanatory text reflowed to suit each sign format. ## Site, size, and mounting direction The installation site is the town-line frontage at **10 Old Hancock Road, Antrim, NH 03440**. The landowner owns Antrim Tax Map 245, Lot 028 and adjoining Hancock parcel R15-25-1, resolving private landowner consent on both sides of the municipal boundary. Recorded deed or survey lines control the final road right-of-way and municipal/parcel boundaries. Pavement, ditches, tax-map graphics, and utility poles do not. Old Hancock Road is listed by Antrim as a scenic road from Route 31 to the town line. It is not one of the state routes listed in Antrim's road inventory; the inventory classifies the other traveled town highways as Class V. The selected private-property path therefore does not include an NHDOT sign approval. The **24 × 36-inch compact option has been selected**. Retain the existing 60 × 36-inch artwork as the archived maximum-size option. A conventional FHWA R2-1 speed-limit sign is 24 × 30 inches (5 square feet), giving these useful comparisons: - **Recommended compact:** 24 × 36 inches, portrait, 6 square feet, or 1.2 times the benchmark area. This is the best candidate for Antrim's six-square-feet- or-under no-sign-permit category. - **Balanced:** 30 × 48 inches, portrait, 10 square feet, or 2 times the benchmark area. This gives the existing explanatory copy more breathing room but should be expected to require a local sign permit or determination. - **Maximum:** 60 × 36 inches, landscape, 15 square feet, or exactly 3 times the benchmark area. The archived vector/PDF remains available as the size ceiling. Use a real, commercial 72 × 42-inch basketball backboard with a metal perimeter and rear mounting frame. Attach it only through the manufacturer's steel frame and factory bracket points; never drill tempered glass. A standard rim with a tapered catch net or enclosed chute can direct cans into the restrained barrel. Mount the compact sign beside the backboard on an independent crossbar so sign fasteners do not load the backboard panel. The existing lawful support must carry the backboard, rim, sign, wind, and impact loads without relying on the barrel shell. The explanatory text uses approximately 52-point physical type on the compact face. Check its readability at the actual viewing distance before printing. The main statements are substantially larger. FHWA benchmark source: - ## Checks before printing or fabrication ### 1. Message approved The green check beside “Drinking and driving,” reinforced by language about limiting the reader's risk of “getting in trouble with the law,” can reasonably be read as approving impaired driving or helping drivers dispose of evidence. That is especially sensitive because New Hampshire RSA 265-A:2 prohibits driving under the influence or at/above the statutory alcohol concentration, and RSA 265-A:44 generally restricts opened alcoholic-beverage containers in a vehicle's passenger area. The landowner considered this risk and approved the current wording and symbols, as reflected in the selected SVG, PNG, and print PDF. Outside review remains optional; the message decision is complete for this version. Official sources: - - ### 2. Address-specific location and permit path For 10 Old Hancock Road: - municipality: Antrim/Hancock town line; - parcels: Antrim Tax Map 245, Lot 028 and Hancock R15-25-1; - district: Antrim Rural; Hancock Rural and Agricultural; - road: Old Hancock Road, an Antrim scenic town road; - boundary condition: the same landowner controls both sides of the town line. Antrim's 2026 zoning ordinance says, among other things: - sign structures that are public-safety hazards are prohibited; - a sign may not obstruct driver vision or detract from a traffic-control device; - signs on public property or within a public right-of-way are prohibited unless erected by a governmental body or required there by government order; - any sign six square feet or under is permitted in all districts without a sign permit; - the ordinance definition of “structure” expressly excludes signs; - the ordinance defines a setback as the distance between a building and a property line or road right-of-way, so the Rural 50-foot building setback should not be presented as a blanket setback for the six-square-foot sign; - permanent signs permitted by the Building Inspector are generally capped at 16 square feet in the Village Business District and 25 square feet in the Highway Business District, with oversized signs handled as special exceptions; - an off-premises sign over nine square feet is prohibited; - official Town, State, or Federal signs are exempt from the local sign regulations. Official sources: - - - - - - Hancock's March 2025 ordinance makes the Hancock side the higher-risk location for this particular close-road permanent installation: - Article 4 places land outside its specifically listed Residential and Village Commercial areas in the Rural and Agricultural district. Old Hancock Road is not one of the listed Residential corridors, so R15-25-1 is in Rural and Agricultural. - Hancock defines a sign broadly and applies Article 9 to all visible signs, sign structures, and sign devices unless expressly exempt. - The permanent six-square-foot sign is not within Hancock's listed exemptions. Hancock's temporary-sign exemption applies only to signs under ten square feet that are not permanently embedded or affixed and are intended for short display. - Hancock defines “structure” to include a framework, tank, bin, and sign. Article 21 generally requires a Building Permit before a structure is erected, altered, enlarged, or moved. - In Rural and Agricultural, a structure other than a boundary structure must be at least 50 feet from the nearest edge of the road right-of-way and 30 feet from side and rear lot lines. This assembly is not designed solely to mark a boundary and therefore should not be treated as a boundary structure. - Article 9 prohibits a sign within, on, or projecting over the property-line boundary adjoining a street or right-of-way, limits a freestanding sign to eight feet high, and counts much of its support area when measuring sign area. Accordingly, common ownership does not make a slight Hancock-side placement a lower-risk route. The preferred candidate keeps the sign face, backboard, rim, catch system, barrel, frame, braces, footings, and anchors a small measurable distance inside Antrim. The offset should be established only after the town line is marked; it should be enough to document that no component crosses the boundary. This avoids split jurisdiction and preserves Antrim's specific six-square-foot no-sign-permit rule for the sign face. It does not resolve the separate Antrim classification of a new permanent backboard/barrel frame. #### Antrim no-sign-permit/town-line candidate 1. Use the exact 24 × 36-inch portrait face, exactly 6 square feet. 2. Keep every component outside the recorded Old Hancock Road right-of-way, sight triangle, ditch, drainage area, snow-storage area, and plow path. The pavement edge alone does not establish the right-of-way. 3. Do not impose the Rural 50-foot building setback on the sign face; Antrim expressly excludes signs from its “structure” definition. 4. Mark the town line and keep every component a small documented distance inside Antrim. Do not align the assembly on the boundary or extend it into Hancock: Hancock's sign-as-structure definition, general Building Permit rule, and Rural and Agricultural setbacks make that the higher-risk path. 5. Attach the backboard through its factory metal frame and attach the sign to a separate crossbar on an existing lawful support. Do not add new freestanding posts, footings, or excavation on this branch. 6. Keep the installation clear of sight lines, drainage, snow storage, official signs, traffic controls, roadside trees, and stone walls. 7. Use no flashing/moving illumination, do not imitate a traffic-control sign, and attach nothing to trees, utility poles, or highway objects. The selected sign face does not need an Antrim sign permit and is not a “structure” under Antrim's definitions. The complete backboard/barrel/frame is more than a sign face, however, and the same definition lists storage and trash-disposal bins as structures. Therefore: - **existing lawful support, no new posts/footings:** strongest candidate for close private-property placement outside the right-of-way; - **new posts, footings, or freestanding frame:** ask the municipality containing the frame to classify the permanent assembly before construction; this is separate from the Antrim sign-permit exemption. The scenic-road designation protects certain roadside trees and stone walls, but RSA 231:158(IV) generally does not change a landowner's rights for work on their own property. Staying wholly beyond the right-of-way avoids that branch. #### Why large political signs do not create the same exemption New Hampshire RSA 664:17 gives political advertising specific treatment. Political advertising may be placed within a state-owned right-of-way with the consent of the owner of the underlying land when it does not obstruct safe traffic. It also has post-election removal deadlines and may not be attached to utility poles or highway signs. That political-advertising rule does not automatically apply to a recycling sign. The visible presence of a large campaign sign also does not prove it was approved or compliant. For this project, the stronger basis is the ordinary private-property route: landowner-controlled land, an on-premise activity, a face at or below Antrim's six-square-foot no-sign-permit threshold, and an assembly outside the public right-of-way and safety hazards. - ### 3. Throwing/traffic operation Do not perform moving-vehicle throw tests on an open public road. A receptacle does not remove the foreseeable risks of distraction, stopping in a travel lane, missed throws, cans rebounding into traffic, pedestrians entering the road, or motorists striking the installation. New Hampshire law separately regulates litter placed on ways/right-of-ways and treats litter thrown from a motor vehicle as evidence against its operator. Any proof-of-concept testing should use: 1. a stationary vehicle; 2. an off-road, closed test area with a spotter and no bystanders; 3. empty, clean cans only; 4. no alcohol consumption; 5. a catch apron/net that contains every miss; 6. an operating plan that addresses observed failures before broader use. Optional Police, insurer, or traffic-safety review may identify hazards, but it is not described here as a zoning or sign approval. Official sources: - - ### 4. Structural design The mockup is a concept, not a fabrication drawing. A real 72 × 42-inch basketball backboard, rim, catch net, and 24 × 36-inch sign present substantial wind and impact loads. The barrel shell must not be the primary support. Before a dimensioned fabrication drawing can be completed, supply: - actual barrel rim height above finished grade; - barrel diameter, opening dimensions, cut location, and edge treatment; - exact existing support material, section, condition, and connection details; - commercial backboard manufacturer/model, weight, rear-frame geometry, factory mounting pattern, and rim rating; - sign substrate, thickness, weight, and printer/fabricator mounting guidance; - site photos and measured grade slope; - parcel line and surveyed right-of-way/setback dimensions; - distances to pavement edge, ditch, utilities, driveways, intersections, traffic-control devices, and snow-storage/plow path; - wind exposure and the existing support's footing/anchor information; - maintenance access and a safe pull-off/parking plan. Verify the existing posts, footings, welds, brackets, and fasteners for the selected backboard and sign. If adequate existing support cannot be documented, design a new support, obtain the applicable municipality's written classification or permit determination, and call Dig Safe before ground disturbance. ## Re-export From this directory: ```sh python3 export_svg_to_print_pdf.py ``` Validation commands used: ```sh pdfinfo antrim_recycling_sign_60x36_print.pdf pdffonts antrim_recycling_sign_60x36_print.pdf pdftotext antrim_recycling_sign_60x36_print.pdf - ```