Billboard companies and others with a vested interest in sign regulations spent more than $1.1 million lobbying city councilmembers and other city officials in 2011, according to reports filed with the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. The big spender in the effort to influence those officials was Clear Channel, which paid lobbying firms almost $427,878. [...]
Are those billboards you pass every day on your way to work legally permitted? Do they comply with all the pertinent sign regulations regarding height, size, and number of faces? The city promised to answer those questions a decade ago, with the implementation of the Off-Site Sign Periodic Inspection Program, commonly referred to in City [...]
The third and very likely final draft of a new city-wide sign ordinance is heading to the City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee at a special meeting on Dec. 5. Thanks to widespread community opposition to provisions such as those that would have allowed off-site advertising in city parks, this draft contains [...]
L.A. billboards that seriously violate conditions of their permits could be legalized under the latest draft of a new citywide sign ordinance now being debated by a city council committee. At least 500 billboards that are larger and taller than allowed could be affected, according to a report from the city Planning Department. The latest [...]
People holding signs saying “No Ads In Parks” and “Parks Are Sanctuaries” were scattered through the audience Tuesday night when L.A. City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Jan Perry spoke before the Venice Neighborhood Council. Perry, a vocal proponent of selling advertising in parks and other city properties to raise revenue for the city, told the [...]
A Hollywood property owner’s five-year quest to force the city to allow supergraphic signs on a Sunset Blvd. office building apparently reached an end last week, when the U.S. Supreme court declined to review a lower court ruling that upheld the city’s right to prohibit the signs. It is the second time in past two [...]
L.A. City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Jan Perry has written a letter to a City Council committee urging adoption of a sign ordinance provision that would allow signs, banners, and other forms of commercial advertising in city parks and other public facilities. Without such a provision, Perry wrote to members of the Planning and Land [...]
One of L.A.’s most influential business organizations calls the city’s ban on new billboards and other off-site signs a “detrimental regulation” and says the city council took a “step in the wrong direction” when it unanimously passed that ban almost 12 years ago. One of L.A.’s largest law firms, with 22 registered lobbyists on its [...]
In a refreshing change from sign companies suing the city, one of L.A.’s most notorious purveyors of illegal sign blight has sued a major L.A. law firm for legal malpractice, claiming that the firm caused the company’s demise by advising it to put up as many unpermitted signs as possible before the city amended its [...]
