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Let's Ban Billboards

Apr 2025 Most improvements to cities are hard — they take millions of dollars and years of planning. But the change I have in mind is easy — it just needs a few of us to decide to care.

The design board works hard to ensure that our city’s built environment is cohesive, beautiful, and in line with an established set of guidelines. If someone showed up to the design review board wanting to splash a 48-foot advertisement in the face of every person coming into the city, they would get laughed out of the room. The only people who won’t absolutely love this change are a few landowners who make money by spraying logos all over everyone’s public space.

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