LA's Billboards Gone Wild: Insider Exclusive

Entire TV Show http://www.insiderexclusive.com/billboards.htm

Architects Ted Wu and Alejandro Ortiz and social activist Dennis Hathaway are featured in an exciting, exclusive, in-depth and inside interview with famed TV host Steve Murphy, discussing

Headline Legal News: LA's Billboards Gone Wild. Ted, Alejandro and Dennis talk about how, in 2002, the L.A. City Council voted to ban new billboards and implement an inventory and inspection program to find and remove those that were put up illegally. By all informed estimates, there are more billboards and other forms of off-site advertising signs now than there were six years ago. And because the inventory and inspection program still hasn't been implemented, billboards either erected or modified illegally—as many as one-third of the 11,000 or so in the city, according to a building department estimate—continue to generate profits for outdoor advertising companies. Digital billboards, which have been the subject of numerous complaints due to their brightness that spills into residential neighborhoods and their constantly changing images that can distract drivers, have also been challenged on environmental grounds because they consume far more energy than conventional billboards. Led by Ted Wu, the Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight (CBBB), a recently incorporated non-profit organization, an appeal has been made to a city planning department citing the need for an environmental impact review to stop this problem and the broader challenge of billboard blight.
You can learn more about this effort and the Coalition to Ban Bill Board Blight at:
http://www.billboardblight.org
cbbbla@verizon.net

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• alejandro
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• billboards
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• environment
• WTF

[insiderexclusive]

We invited all the representatives of the billboard companies to appear numerous times. None choose to appear, in fact, no one company responded to our inquiries. We also asked every single LA Councilman to appear on this issue. All refused, stating that the Film shoot date conflicted with their calender. What does that tell you Fania54!!!!!

[Fania54]

Not very fair and balanced. I wonder if any of the billboard companies were invited to send spokepersons to join in this discussion?

[bknaj]

Thanks Dennis, this was an important video to watch. If a billboard had sound, we would all feel battered by the constant shouting. But I believe the visual assault of billboards is taking a toll on our nerves as we drive around LA.

Jan