Billboard Scandal: A Bill of Indictment

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At the outset of the hearing Thursday on the city's billboard policy, Planning Commission President Jane Usher took the audience through a PowerPoint presentation she put together on the history of how City Hall bungled the situation.

It read like a bill of indictment for wrongdoing and all that was missing was the name or names of the criminals.

For that. someone would have to go back and follow the money and match up how it flows  from the billboard companies to the politicians. Maybe City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo will do that -- maybe not since he's the No.1 beneficiary of the billboard companies contributions.

Here's the link digitalbillboard.ppt

Usher showed how the city won a federal court judgment supporting its 2002 ordinance that allowed for removal of the 4,000 illegal billboards, banned giant flashing electronic billboards and changes to existing permitted billboard structures.

Then, under a barrage of lawsuits engineered by the billboard industry, the aforemention City Attorney negotiated a settlement deal that gave the companies everything they wanted.

For example, Clear Channel and CBS -- each with slightly more than 1,600 billboards -- got this deal:

lKey Settlement Terms: companies to deliver billboard inventory to the City; 420 credits per company to modernize (convert to digital), add up to 75 cut-outs/extensions and 100 double panels, and permit certain post 1986 structures not in conformance with permits; issue permits for pre-1986 structures and for 1986-1998 structures that could have been lawfully erected; removal of  49 (3%) structures per company; removal of post 1998 structures that have no permit; and payment of reduced inspection fees.


That's in large type so it registers on you just what a giveaway of public assets the deal was that the City Council and mayor signed off on.

There's lots more information that in Usher's report. If you want to know how corrupt City Hall is, you'll read the whole thing and get mad and do something about this and all the other dirty deals that City Hall is involved in.

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And the community has to fight like Hell to get CBS to clean graffiti off the front and back of their billboards. You can call CBS directly and still get no action unless they repaper a location with a new ad for a new advertiser. Old ads go to seed.

Watch how long graffiti stays on the AT & T ad above Darby's Coffee Shop on DeSoto and Sherman Way in Canoga Park.

I've said it before: The only way to change this is to erect glaring electronic billboards outside the councilmen's bedroom windows, and put huge graffiti-scrawled billboards across from everyone of their houses. They'll become instant NIMBYs, and we can say what's good for you applies better to us.

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Where would this city be without such a strategic and bold Planning Commission. You will never get anything sesnsible out of this lackey Gail Goldberg's Planning Department.

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