DAYTON – It’s definitely not going to get the Oscar hype of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” but a single billboard on the way into Dayton, Indiana, this week added one more scene to the drama over the direction of the small town just east of Lafayette.
In a neighbor-vs.-neighbor battle over growth – one that already included a proliferation of “Keep Dayton Small” yard signs over the past year – the billboard stands along Indiana 38, across from the Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. plant and just outside the entrance to Dayton’s main drag.
It reads: “Keep Dayton Small. Keep Dayton Friendly. Keep Dayton Dayton.” Below it is the signature of Dayton Watchdog and the Dayton Area Community Coalition, sister organizations that have been fighting every step of the way against plans for a 110-home subdivision coming to a newly annexed part of town, along Dayton Road.
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The billboard, expected to stay there as a tweak to the Dayton Town Council for the next four months, went up a week after the council voted 4-1 to rezone the property on the south edge of the town. The vote essentially cleared the way for residential development there.
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