No Transparency: L.A. City Council Committee and Billboard Legislation

Billboards like this one for the city’s earthquake preparedness campaign went up prior to Englander’s proposal to grant billboard amnesty.
At a meeting of the L.A. City Council’s PLUM committee on Dec. 16, 2014, Councilman Mitchell Englander told his fellow committee members that the city should grant “amnesty” to almost 1,000 billboards that either lacked permits or had been altered in violation of their permits. Failure to do this, he claimed, would embroil the city in time-consuming, expensive litigation.