Letters to Editor
Illegal Signs
Editor:
You are sure right ! Not only are they on a light pole in parking lot, of Park Crest Center, 3960 & 3962 N. Studebaker Rd. Long Beach, they were attached 12’ off the ground.
Del Johnson
Editor:
I have a deep track record with this matter in local cities.
They lie. The cities do, and so do the police.
I asked each city to produce a list of all walls owned by the city.
They had none.
If they have no list of walls owned by the city, then they cannot enforce laws that deny candidate access to city walls. They simply have no clue what walls to enforce, and what walls belong to private property owners.
Here in the OC there are actually several miles of city-owned walls in most cities. They used to take over the walls as part of the newly built track turn-over but stopped when they realized it was a HUGE liability 50 years later when they fell down. So it is now a hodgepodge of mostly private and some public walls.
In the City of Fountain Valley I finally pushed 'em into the corner and made 'em admit they had no record of city walls. And got them to agree to leave my signs alone; except they forgot to tell their senior citizen patrol who took all my signs down. They called me to apologize and even offered to put 'em back up. An amazing turn-around from 4 and 6 years ago in this city.
So, the key here is to write the City to ask for their list of CITY owned walls. If they have none, then they cannot enforce any laws about signs on walls; and if they do enforce they will be violating political speech freedom because some private wall signs will come down too.
John Briscoe
Sunset Beach
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