GIGA GRANADA HILLS

Is this vandalism, or political commentary? While I generally agree with the sentiment behind GHSNC's "Banning Billboards Resolution," passed over a year ago, I think the wording is a bit softball and the focus is misplaced. Here's the text of the resolution: Banning Billboards Resolution Whereas billboards in the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council area have become a site of continual graffiti and vandalism; Whereas billboard operators and owners in the GHSNC area have not fulfilled their stewardship in maintaining aesthetic ally pleasing billboard signs, allowing their property to wallow in the stains of graffiti thus forcing our stakeholders to be over-exposed to continual vandalism and encouraging blight in our community; We, the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council strongly request the Los Angeles City Council and the city of Los Angeles to pass legislation which bans and removes, at the owners’ expense, all billboards in our boundaries within ...

Both the Granada Hills South and Granada Hills North Neighborhood Councils have passed resolutions condemning billboards, which must have felt good. And I plan to spend a lot of blog space ranting about how much I hate billboards and why, because it makes me feel good too, for about a minute. But if you want to keep feeling good about the war on billboards, stop reading right here. Still here? You must be a glutton for punishment. If you want to do more reading, I recommend this award-winning L.A. Wee kly article , but if you're more the video type, this KCET "SoCal Connected" special (click the photo at right) on the billboard issue in L.A. can't be beat. The bitter little pill: no one can do anything to stop the billboard industry. Los Angeles City Council members have tried and rolled over in the face of jillions of dollars in campaign contributions and/or threatened lawsuits, and you're not on the city council. You're just some little guy who do...