The Virginian-Pilot
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VIRGINIA BEACH
The City Council this afternoon will hear about a compromise struck by two council members on how the city should regulate electronic LED signs. The meeting starts at 3:30 at City Hall.
The city has been wrestling with how to regulate the proliferating signs. City Manager Jim Spore wants them banned, but that's unlikely.
Council members Glenn Davis and Rosemary Wilson have hashed out an agreement that allows the signs but tones them down.
For more details, return to PilotOnline.com later and read tomorrow's Virginian-Pilot.
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Ugly, distracting signs
This city is a eye sore and getting worse! These business can go jump in a lake. Let's clean up this city. Fine the business heavily and I mean heavily. Keep them off or away from the streets. They look cheap and disgusting!!
We ought to celebrate. No
We ought to celebrate.
No need to worry about TAXES, no need to figure out how to BALANCE THE BUDGET. There is plenty of $$$ for SCHOOLS and TRANSPORTATION is fine. Heck, there must be SAND at the ocean front and locals are not permitted, but TOURIST are welcome with plenty of PARKING. TOWN CENTER is booming, even with Taco Bell and LIGHT RAIL is coming. We've solved all these problems so now we are concerned about SIGNS. SIGNS that might distract drivers who have ADD and thus refuse to accept personal responsibility for being "distracted".
Yes, let us celebrate, LED signs are now an issue and all other problems have been put to bed.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't!
There is a faction within VB that does not want it to one day resemble Las Vegas. If that were to come about the VBCC excuse offered would be "There were more pressing issues." To that group of people, that excuse would be unacceptable.
So, damed if you do, damed if you don't!
Again,
council voted on LED sign approval period. Leave it alone and move onto more pressing issues....POT HOLES
Wasting time......
The Council will soon vote to regulate the number of times one can use the public restrooms at the rec centers....
Instead of using their resources to try and find ways to conquer the budget shortfall, our Caped Crusader wishes to lead the Council down the road of micromanaging LED signs which were APPROVED in the first place.
It's time for Jim Spore to don his cape and fly off to some retirement village where he run for association president and chase people who don't cut their yards.... This LED sign nonsense is akin to that kind of behavior and that's right up Jim's alley.... Let's help him find his way......... OUT!!!!
wave church sign is great
All of the time and money spent trying to stop this sign was ridiculous! Look how nice that sign looks! That led sign on vb blvd. for the church is certainly distracting and nothing said about that was there. hmmmmmm
I agree.....
Wave did a good job with their sign, one of the better examples.....
Who is representing whom
I can't recall. Which council members received campain contributions from these companies? Those that have received should abstain from voting as this would be a clear conflict of interest!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
With all the SERIOUS issues the VBCC has to deal with, why are these folks wasting our tax dollars and quality time for something so trivial and minuscule as this subject.