# Stacked parking poles to be read from the plate down

> A five-kind typology of stacked parking signs becomes a regional shire's legal reading of each pole, with a class plate that governs and a five-sign ceiling.

From the next sign audit, a stacked parking pole in a regional shire will be read first from the plate fixed to it and only then from the signs above. The School of Emergent Priorities has set the arrangement out in _'Except Permit Holders'_, a poster released today by Ms Sunniva Balogun with Dr Anneke Tolan and Dr Lindiwe Achterberg.

> Anyone who has stood at a pole and read it down to the last sign will know the question we were asking.
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> --- Dr Lindiwe Achterberg, Lecturer, School of Emergent Priorities

The poster follows 286 poles across seven townships and sorts the signs on each into one of five kinds, from Additive to Orphaned, according to how a lower sign qualifies the one above it. Two coders worked independently, and the kinds were fixed before the shire's appeal records were opened.

The shire's Local Laws Unit has adopted the five kinds as the legal reading of a pole. Every pole is to carry a class plate, and where the plate and the signs differ, the plate governs. Notices issued at poles of the two rarest kinds lapse without review, and no pole may carry more than five signs, class plate included.

Ms Balogun said the third coder's settling of disagreements was "the part we would most like to see repeated at other kerbs." The work reflects the School's continuing attention to the small instruments by which a council speaks to a kerb, and the University is glad to see the matter given an order the street can read.

The full poster is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.9li560.