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		<title>Legal Wars:  Sign Company Attorneys Plot New Attacks On L.A. Regulations</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=5108</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael McNeilly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skytag]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently undaunted by a federal appellate court decision upholding the city’s right to ban new off-site and supergraphic signs, attorneys for sign companies have signaled their intention to mount fresh challenges to the ban that has been the subject of almost constant litigation since its original passage eight years ago. In filings in U.S. District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning Commission Delays Vote On Hollywood Supergraphic Ban, Wants More Info</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=5089</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hearing warnings that a ban on supergraphic signs in Hollywood could have such dire consequences as stopping new development and forcing businesses to close their doors, the City Planning Commission Thursday directed the planning department to come back next month with more details on why the ban proposed by City Council President Eric Garcetti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyesore of the Week:  Brought to You By Lamar Advertising</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=5074</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The face of this billboard displays fresh ad copy, so we know it&#8217;s not abandoned.   And even though Lamar, which owns more billboards in the U.S. than any other company, lost $58 million last year, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that it couldn&#8217;t have found some stray pennies to sandblast and paint this billboard (perhaps by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban on New Supergraphic Signs in Hollywood Contains Huge Exemption, Includes Signs That Would Cover Apartment Windows</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=5053</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[L.A. Live]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skytag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supergraphic Signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trutanich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti’s proposal to ban new supergraphic signs in the Hollywood sign district would exempt a total of 31,000 sq. ft. of the signage that has won some form of city approval, but hasn’t been issued permits by the city building department.  Included is a 5,700 sq. ft. sign that would cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Wars:  Federal Judge Slaps Down Company That Put Up Billboards Without Permits On Downtown L.A. Freeway</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=5035</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four full-sized billboards that appeared without warning the past three years on the north side of the 110 freeway may be in definite jeopardy, due to a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling today upholding the city’s claim that the billboards are illegal and need to be removed.  See  New Billboards Go Up Alongside Downtown Freeway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Council President Seeks Ban on New Supergraphic Signs in Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=5015</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Planning Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supergraphic Signs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Multi-story supergraphic signs advertising everything from movies to liquor to women’s clothing have proliferated throughout Hollywood in the past half dozen years, but L.A. City Council president Eric Garcetti is now calling for a ban on the approval of any more of the signs in the Hollywood Sign district.  In a motion to be voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court Won&#8217;t Reconsider Ruling Upholding L.A. Supergraphic Sign Ban</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=5003</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skytag]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided against granting World Wide Rush and Skytag, Inc. an “En Banc” rehearing of last May’s ruling upholding the constitutionality of L.A.’s ban on off-site and supergraphic advertising signs.   The companies’ only recourse now in their three-year old attack on the city’s sign ordinance is to file a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billboard Companies and PSA’s:  Public Service, or Lip Service?</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=4988</link>
		<comments>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=4988#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS Outdoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clear Channel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clear Channel, CBS Outdoor, and other big sign companies regularly tout the value of billboards for PSA’s, or public service announcements.  But when it comes to following their own industry code of practices the companies aren’t so public-spirited and community-minded. Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor are both members of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Naked City: More Supergraphic Signs Disappear</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=4970</link>
		<comments>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=4970#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS Outdoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael McNeilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skytag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supergraphic Signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Van Wagner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northbound travelers on the 405 freeway in West L.A. might be asking what happened to the supergraphic signs that used to be stretched across the face of a 12-story office building on adjacent Sepulveda Blvd., advertising such products as movies, cellphones, fast food, soft drinks, and trips to Hawaii. Those ads that have appeared continuously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart License Plates:  A Very Dumb Idea?</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=4927</link>
		<comments>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=4927#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the short video and then hit the &#8220;continue reading&#8221; link to take a short quiz. Do you think the idea of California license plates than can show electronic ads is: 1.  A great idea, about time. 2.  Possibly questionable, but let&#8217;s study it. 3.  One of the top ten worst ideas of all time. [...]]]></description>
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