Street spam: "One irritating business tactic to eliminate another."

(Mid-afternoon update: When I wrote on FB earlier today about the need to address street spam, Board of Public Works member Suellen Wilkinson responded: "Mayor is working on this I'm told, so is the City Council with a new ordinance I believe. When this was brought before the Board of Works a few months ago, I had suggested that the Neighborhood Associations be 'deputized' to remove such signs. The street dept is having a special day soon to gather all illegally placed signs, especially in the City's rights of way, and will do that several times until the message is received loud and clear. In the meantime, good citizens have to do what good citizens have to do!")

I like the idea. Perhaps here in New Albany, we can spend the next three years or so building consensus that street spam indeed is a problem, after which we'll be in excellent position to ignore it, again, until after another election cycle. Thanks to DC for the link.

Hollywood unleashes robocalls to fight illegal signs

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Hollywood Code Compliance Officer Irish Gardner removes a "pop-up"… (Walter Michot, Miami Herald.)

March 08, 2012|By Tonya Alanez, Sun Sentinel

HOLLYWOOD — The city has unleashed one irritating business tactic to eliminate another.

A new robocalling campaign seeks to hassle, hound and harass out of existence those pesky signs that illegally clutter public medians with offers to buy your gold and junk cars, fix your AC or rescue you from foreclosure. .