Question for Virginians... or anyone who knows

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

the answer.

Just drove a million miles through the state, what the hell is a "Certified Business Location?" and if every town and county is, why would they post it?

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Here, check out this link.

Might have an answer for you.


http://www.reap.vt.edu/publications/horizons/hor11-3.html

[theHandpuppet]

2. Other folks have asked the same question about Virginia's signs

See http://squidpants.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_squidpants_archive.html
and http://www.asecular.com/musings/aug98/05.htm

Note the puzzlement of this traveler:

From http://washingtonoculus.blogspot.com/2005/11/on-road-back-from-carrboro.html

"Later, on I-95 we passed through Stafford County, Va., where on the boundary sign, it says that the county is "a certified business location." I thought that was an odd thing to have on a jurisdictional boundary sign. Maybe it's a really bland marketing slogan. Not sure. But if you Google "certified business location" and "stafford county virginia," a Perspectives.com "Republican.com & Conservative right" politics message board titled "I like Big Butts" will pop up. In a discussion about mullets, one poster talks about vandalizing a Stafford County "certified business location" sign back in the 1980s. Odd."

So who really knows?

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Is it like every little community in NC being a 'bird sanctuary'?

NC can't force itself to restrict the 2nd amendment in any way, so they call every town a bird sanctuary to make it illegal to discharge firearms in the town limits.

(At least, that is how it was explained to me when I first moved here.)