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Written by David Zahniser
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:26 |
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The city contends multi-story vinyl 'supergraphics' violate its billboard ban, but a federal jurist sides for now with an outdoor advertising firm. A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the city of Los Angeles from cracking down on as many as 34 "supergraphics," multi-story vinyl signs that have been draped across the sides of buildings in violation of the city's billboard ban.
In a ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins ordered the city to stop prosecuting Insite Outdoor Works LA until the company has a chance to challenge the city's outdoor advertising laws. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:33 )
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Written by David Zahniser
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:20 |
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The sign would be placed near the 110 Freeway on land owned by a labor union. A portion of its proceeds would go to nearby schools. A key committee of the Los Angeles City Council moved ahead Tuesday with a plan to place a digital billboard on land owned by a labor union along the 110 Freeway with some of the proceeds going to nearby schools.
Councilman Ed Reyes, chairman of the council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee, called for a portion of the new sign's revenue to go to the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, a nearby high school, and possibly other community programs. |
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Written by Ted Wu
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 21:26 |
COALITION TO BAN BILLBOARD BLIGHT (CBBB)
City Council Action
On April 8, the Los Angeles City Council voted to designate an MTA bus lot as a special sign district to allow two 7-story high digital billboards to be put up alongside the 10 Freeway downtown. What would you say if someone told you that allowing these billboards will accomplish the following: - Limit visual clutter in the area
- Protect scenic vistas of the Downtown skyline
- Minimize potential traffic hazards
- Create a pedestrian-friendly environment
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 May 2008 21:47 )
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Written by Christine Pelisek
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Monday, 28 April 2008 17:04 |
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4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept? Shortly before Thanksgiving, a furtive crew of workers for L.A. Outdoor Advertising poured a cement foundation next to the Harbor Freeway and anchored a huge metal structure into the wet cement. A few days and roughly $100,000 later, the crew had erected L.A.’s latest illegal billboard atop an equally illegal 10-ton superstructure that can be removed only with a wrecker. Billboard warriors Ted Wu and Gerald Silver: "We were hummingbirds." Adding insult to injury, the whole thing was built in full view of the windowed offices of Los Angeles city billboard inspectors — a tiny, and some say incredibly inept, group who are failing in City Hall’s purported effort to find and remove an estimated 4,000 illegal billboards blighting L.A. So pathetic is the battle against outdoor advertising companies that the massive billboard went unnoticed for months by leaders at City Hall, including big-time billboard proponent and council member Ed Reyes, in whose district the sign sits. It was left to irritated commuters, like pissed-off clutter critic Dennis Hathaway, who spoke up at a January public hearing, where city engineer Eric Cabrera called L.A. Outdoor’s ballsy stunt an “egregious disregard of the law.” |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 April 2008 16:21 )
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Written by David Zahniser
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Friday, 18 April 2008 00:00 |
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Anti-billboard activists are alarmed by a plan to allow signs along a 17-block area, saying the city should first crack down on illegal ones. A Los Angeles city councilman has proposed the creation of a new billboard district in Koreatown, one that would run 17 blocks from east to west and take in major corridors such as Wilshire and Olympic boulevards.
With a separate downtown billboard district scheduled for a vote next week, the proposal by Councilman Herb Wesson has alarmed anti-billboard activists. They said the city should not allow any more outdoor signs until it can show that it is cracking down on the illegal ones.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:37 )
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