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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

[Photo by the inimitable Nick Douglas.]

Spotted on Valencia and 20th: Google "Chemtrails." Someone didn't get the memo about the moths, obvs.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Dispelling with the typically long, impassioned rhetoric, Beyond Chron has a simple plea: Please take down Carol Midgen's campaign billboard at the corner of Turk and Hyde. But not before delivering a lesson on corporate altruism: "Clear Channel donated the space through an “internal fund” when they have surplus billboard space. Somehow, we are asked to believe that Clear Channel could not find a paying customer for 11 months to rent the space at Turk & Hyde. The June election is over, Carole Migden lost, and it’s time to move on – please take down the billboard. Of course, Clear Channel will argue it was about promoting an anti-war state proposition – you know, the one that never made it on the ballot." [Beyond Chron]

Thursday, May 8, 2008

City Milks Owner for $50K Billboard Violation

Hear the Planning Department rooooaaaar. A local resident was slapped with a $50,000 fine for refusing to remove a 48 foot-wide billboard from the side of his residence, one that has been painted and papered over since the 1950's. Back in 2002, ye olde Planning Commission instated in a voter-approved ballot measure that banned new outdoor advertising; in 2006, the Supes declared that all signs installed before '02 were illegal unless they had a (insert drum roll here) permit. The advert in question sits on Folsom Street, and is visible from Highway 101. (As if that billboard is the most visually offensive object along the 101!) The exorbitant fine— $50K, people!— seems to suggest that the harborer of said billboard is being held up as an example to the greater populace; the defendant's lawyer expects to repeal the ruling. “People were expecting Clear Channel and CBS to take the hammer — not a regular guy,” he said. Heads up to the Mission: 96 other billboards slated for removal, and the slap happiness on the fine front is likely to continue, judging by this case.
· Fine of $50,000 for illegal billboard a sign of stepped-up enforcement [SF Examiner]

[Image courtesy the Examiner]