The City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the proposed new billboard ordinance at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the City Council Chamber.
This measure is as flawed as the 2002 ordinance written by wannabe City Attorney Jack Weiss, who helped broker the deal for 900 digital billboards two years ago and has his sticky fingers in the latest incarnation of selling out the public interest to these sign companies that are profiteering at the public expense.
Visit Dennis Hathaway’s Ban Billboard Blight website if you want insight into what’s wrong with this proposal that is being rushed through City Hall with proper public input. Or read former Planning Commission President Jane Usher’s cogent insights in the item below.
Someone better do something to save us from judges who seem to be on the side of the billboard companies and the city council members who are truly the village idiots.
If I read this story correctly in today’s Daily News, their stupidity just cost us another 100K in legal fees.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_11928974