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Posted: 12:42 PM Sep 6, 2010
State looks at road encroachments in Townsend
Businesses in the town of Townsend on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains derive their living from tourists and many lure in visitors with roadside decorations and other displays.
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TOWNSEND, Tenn. (AP) -- Businesses in the town of Townsend on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains derive their living from tourists and many lure in visitors with roadside decorations and other displays.
But a local argument over one such display between two competing hotels has led to the state Department of Transportation looking into all encroachments on the right of way along U.S. Highway 321.
Letters from the department went out last month asking residents and businesses to remove as many as 80 encroachments along the road.
Hotel owner Paul Maples told The Knoxville News Sentinel that he had permits to display logs carved with depictions of woodland creatures but was asked by the city to remove them after a complaint from a nearby hotel.
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Information from: The Knoxville News Sentinel, http://www.knoxnews.com
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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