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When a bill to put a little bite into California’s toothless billboard regulations came before the State Senate last week, the usual suspects—big billboard companies, chambers of commerce, construction interests—lined up to oppose it.  But also signing on to help kill the bill were such organizations as the National Council of Jewish Women, the Minorities [...]

Mural permitted through Portland's public art easement program The legal black hole into which public art murals have fallen is a source of frustration and even anger for L.A. artists, art organizations, and politicians in areas where murals are significant elements of cultural history and objects of community pride.  Sometimes called the mural capital of the [...]

The video footage below of a CBS Outdoor digital billboard was shot in real time at the intersection of Westwood and Santa Monica Blvds.  The ad for “The Last Airbender,” an upcoming feature film based on the animated Nickelodeon TV series, would appear to be a blatant violation of an agreement between billboard companies and [...]

Sign for businesses at L.A. mini-mall. Proposed sign ordinance would limit digital conversion of such signs. Is it foolish to expect a business publication to produce an objective, in-depth article on sign regulations that are opposed by members of the business community?  Or is such an idea, in an age when the line between advocacy [...]

Two supergraphics protected by federal court injunctions issued in 2008, but lifted by the appeals court ruling. Left, sign by Skytag, Inc.; right, by World Wide Rush Does yesterday’s decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the city’s right to ban off-site, supergraphic, and freeway-facing advertising signs mean that impresarios of blight like [...]

Billboard illegally erected near downtown Los Angeles You might think that Clear Channel, the world’s biggest billboard owner and a company that promotes itself as a responsible member of the communities it operates in, would not oppose a bill currently pending before the California State Senate that would levy fines and require disgorgement of revenue from [...]

Regency Outdoor Advertising billboard on Robertson Blvd. Almost $700,000 in Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) funds has been paid to private law firms defending the agency and city of Los Angeles against a lawsuit a West Hollywood billboard company filed more than ten years ago over the CRA’s denial of permits for two new billboards. Brought by Regency [...]

Contest Promotions sign in L.A. advertising movie "Repo Man." Sign has city permit for "on-site" advertising. In 2002, voters in San Francisco overwhelmingly approved a no-exceptions ban on all new billboards and other forms of off-site advertising.  However, last week an L.A.-based sign company won a ruling in federal court that could seriously [...]

Legally-permitted Van Wagner sign in Hollywood. Company says it will remove more than 60 unpermitted signs at other locations. If a single supergraphic sign can earn tens of thousands of dollars each month for outdoor advertising companies, why would one of those companies voluntarily decide to remove more than 60 of them various locations in [...]

Supergraphic sign alongside 10 freeway in West L.A. City alleges tree removed from right-of-way for sign visibility. Two weeks after the City Attorney’s office filed a lawsuit charging Vanguard Outdoor Advertising with putting up illegal supergraphic signs on five L.A. buildings, a brand new supergraphic has gone up on one of those buildings, just west [...]