To the editor: The Instances’ editorial workplace doesn’t need digital billboards. The neighborhood councils don’t want digital indicators. Environmental and conservation teams don’t want digital billboards.
Those that need these boards are LA Metropolis Councilman Paul Krekorian, whose marketing campaign was backed by a digital billboard firm, and Mayor Karen Bass.
Different members of the Metropolis Council doubtless really feel strain to vote as Krekorian needs as a result of his standing as council president means something they assist dangers going to purgatory in the event that they oppose him.
Marian Dodge, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Digital and conventional billboards contribute to the “glitz” of our metropolis, together with graffiti, ugly utility poles and the dearth of avenue bushes in some areas.
Some communities, equivalent to the realm round Los Angeles Worldwide Airport, might grow to be signal districts, however they continue to be unattractive.
Alternatively, the choice to simply accept or reject billboards must be taken from our downtown LA politicians, who obtain political donations, and given to our native neighborhood councils.
The town’s 99 neighborhood councils are led by locals. The lure to simply accept billboards regionally can be lease cash given on to native councils for group parks, pavements and different facilities.
Their voice can be extra democratic and aware of the distinctive wants of the group—and aware of our various assist for or opposition to billboards.
Jerry Bluestein, Los Angeles
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To the editor: After I opened The Instances to learn your editorial, I used to be shocked by the picture of the digital billboard shining subsequent to the houses in my Comstock Hills neighborhood.
I used the identical picture for a group publication I wrote years in the past, urging our group’s members to look on the West Los Angeles Space Planning Fee to struggle this harmful blight in our metropolis.
Your editorial is spot on and I admire you telling the reality: Our representatives at Metropolis Corridor are chasing {dollars} to the detriment of the remainder of us. Nobody listens to us.
Even having digital adverts at bus stops is a scandal. Our metropolis has an obligation to offer shelter for transit customers. Ought to we additionally become profitable from bus stops?
Jan Reichmann, Los Angeles
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To the editor: A part of the explanation “there is a fixed seek for new income” at Metropolis Corridor is that metropolis authorities has a demonstrated incapacity to implement fundamental quality-of-life legal guidelines for the advantage of town as a complete.
So as an alternative of addressing these points, our elected leaders are turning to the peak of digital billboards to cowl up their failure to satisfy their sworn duties. In the meantime, native residents could have the scourge of digital billboards so as to add to the already daunting checklist of unsolved high quality of life points in Los Angeles.
Do I additionally want to say that every one that is taking place within the face of overwhelming opposition from native residents? With associates like these, who wants enemies?
Reagan McClymonds, Los Angeles
