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Originally Posted by Neen
Several questions spring to mind in considering the City’s coordinated street furniture RFP.
Where will these amenities fit in physically on sidewalks that are already tight with sidewalk cafes, honor box corrals, street lights, bike racks and, of course, pedestrians? What are the implications for property owners; will they have a say when these structures are plopped in front of homes and businesses? What about the zoning code’s clear prohibition of outdoor advertising in center city, neighborhood commercial corridors, residential and school areas? Is the city exempt from its own laws? It’s been established which areas will be “protected” from the street furniture advertising; it’s not good enough for parts of CenterCity. Where, then, will these ads actually go? Last of all, what will this stuff LOOK like?
At this point, I'm not feeling the "win-win" in this.
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oh quit your whining...the win-win is that private business, with a much bigger stake in customer satisfaction, maintains all the bus shelters in the city, and they get to make money too!...i think they could do some of the same things with public toilets and the subway stops. anyways it just affects street furniture, and all the bus pavilions have ads in them anyway.
hasnt this already been done in other cities? put the ads on the sidewalks, and (hopefully) they'll vanish from those two-story billboard monstrosities.