Roxburgh and District Community Plan group chairman Rod Lambert said the designs for the signs had been done by Buchan Design Central Otago, which he would present to the Central Otago District Council for approval within a month.
A total of five signs have been designed, each standing about three metres high.
"We've got money to do at least three of them," Mr Lambert said.
"By April 2010, we would hope to have all the township signs done, then the [Teviot] valley signs should follow probably the year after, I would think."
Permission had been received by Contact Energy for a sign at Millers Flat and New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) had given approval for signage at Roxburgh, Ettrick and two Teviot Valley signs, he said.
All but the Teviot Valley signage depicted old revetted sluice pipes used during the 19th century for gold mining.
"They should be good, these signs. They're big and impressive and the sluice pipes give them character."
Following council approval, a sign would be sited at Lake Roxburgh at the bottom of Tamblyn Dve on council reserve land, he said.
Single-sided signs would be placed at the north end of Roxburgh opposite the Quail Haven sub-division, and for the south end opposite the Roxburgh Golf Course.
A two-sided sign for Ettrick would be placed between the Ettrick Dairy and the ENZA Cool Store and another at Millers Flat between Bentley Motors and the Millers Flat Bridge.
One Teviot Valley sign would be situated on the south side of SH8 south of the walkway to Horse Shoe Bridge on the left side of the road entering Millers Flat.
The other would be situated on SH8 about 200m north of the Lake Roxburgh turn off, on the left-hand side of the road welcoming people to the Teviot Valley.
