| Description | The Integrated Directional Signing Program (IDSP) contributes to the public health, safety, and welfare by facilitating motorist awareness and accessibility to historical, cultural, or commercial attractions. It consolidates four specific highway signing programs: • Specific Travel Services (Logo) Signs: a program for signs to guide motorists to specific gas, food, lodging, camping and attraction locations along Virginia’s interstates and controlled-access highways. • Tourist-Oriented Directional Signs (TODS): a newly-created program for signs used along roads that do not have limited access, such as most primary and secondary highways, to guide motorists to businesses, services, recreation and other facilities nearby. • Supplemental Guide Signs: a program for signs to guide motorists traveling from outside the immediate area to specific cultural, recreational, historical, governmental, educational, military and other sites of interest. • General Motorist Services Logo Signs: a program for signs that use symbols or general terms to let motorists know that services such as hospitals, public phones, gas, food, lodging, or camping are nearby. In addition, the IDSP incorporates special programs signing criteria for the following programs: • Civil War Trails; • Birding and Wildlife Trails; • Wayfinding Signs; • Virginia Waterways Signage; and • State Scenic River Signs. Furthermore, additional criteria and considerations for the integration of the Winery Signage Program are addressed in the IDSP. The IDSP criteria address issues such as: requirements businesses and other program participants must meet for eligibility, new categories for specific programs, and fee structures that were not previously regulatory actions. |
| State Authority | §§ 33.2-210 , 33.2-1220 , 46.1-830 , and 46.1-832 , Code of Virginia |
| Federal Authority | None. |
| Exempt from APA | Yes, changes to this chapter of the VA Administrative Code are exempt from Article 2 of the Administrative Process Act. |
| Text of Regulation | Link to Virginia Administrative Code |
| Goals of Regulation |
VDOT seeks public comment regarding the following question: Does the regulation meet the following goals? 1. To protect the public's health, safety, and welfare with the least possible intrusiveness to the citizens and businesses of the Commonwealth. 2. Is the regulation written clearly and understandably? |
| Meetings |
| Name / Title: | R. M. Burgess / Directional & Service Signing Program Manager |
| Address: |
1401 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 |
| Email Address: | RMBurgess@VDOT.Virginia.gov |
| Telephone: | (804)225-4903 FAX: (804)225-4978 TDD: ()- |
| Current Actions | ||
| Action Title | Latest Stage | Status |
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| None | ||
| Past Actions | ||
| Action Title | Latest Stage | Status |
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Amend Commissioner title in connection with legislative action
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Final | Stage complete. This regulation became effective on 11/23/2011. |
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Promulgation of APA-exempt Integrated Directional Signing Program (IDSP) Participation Criteria
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Final | Stage complete. This regulation became effective on 09/06/2006. |
| Withdrawn Actions | ||
| Action Title | Latest Stage | Status |
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Promulgation of APA-exempt Integrated Directional Signing Program (IDSP) Participation Criteria
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Final | Stage withdrawn on 07/19/2006 prior to publication in The Virginia Register. |
| Periodic Reviews | ||
| Last Activity | Status | |
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| 12/9/2021 Agency Completed | Retain As Is | |