Christine Pelisek

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Jack Weiss Took Dough from Outdoor Ad Pushers

Christine Pelisek
The Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight reports that outgoing Los Angeles City Council Member  Jack Weiss, who is the leading candidate for City Attorney, received a $1,000 campaign contribution in 2007 from Barry Rush, the president of Worldwide Rush. Rush is the owner of the huge, controversial Tropicana super-graphic at......

West LA Doctor's Website Targets Super-Graphics

Christine Pelisek
A new billboard battle is being waged -- this time in cyberspace. A protest website recently popped up to "address the injustice placed upon the tenants of 10801 and have the supergraphics' removed forever." The blogger, Dr. David Allan, started the site after part of his office on the north......

How Energy Conscious is Los Angeles? Not Very!

Christine Pelisek
Here is a mind-boggling conflict that seems strangely at odds to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's effort to creat a green, energy-conscious city. On the one hand, the DWP is pushing homeowners to go green -- even suggesting that homeowners use low wattage bulbs instead of incandescent......

Is City Hall Bending on Billboard Ban?

Christine Pelisek
After yesterday's packed and contentious planning commission meeting that was held to argue proposed changes to Los Angeles' exception-filled outdoor sign regulations, questions remain about the fate of 11 "sign districts" to be considered by City Hall. A long-awaited report by the Planning Department released Thursday calls for sweeping changes......

Back to the Drawing Board for Billboard Ordinance

Christine Pelisek
A packed room of angry anti-billboard and pro-billboard residents, lobbyists and business owners practically shouted down City Hall's rushed efforts to reign in outdoor advertising Thursday, with the City Planning Commission tabling the entire mess for a month. About 100 people attended the early-morning meeting in the historic Van Nuys......
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City Report Calls For Digital Billboard Ban — Kinda

Christine Pelisek
City planners are causing a stir with a report released today that calls for banning all new digital billboards -- with a huge exception.The much-anticipated Department of City Planning Recommendation Report, obtained early by L.A. Weekly, comes just weeks after the Los Angeles City Council approved a three-month moratorium on......
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Why L.A.'s Latest Billboard Fix Won't Work

Christine Pelisek
There are signs that the Los Angeles City Council's just-adopted billboard moratorium, purportedly designed to give officials time to crack down on the forest of 10,000 billboards. One possible result is that pro-billboard factions in City Hall now see an opening to wipe out a billboard ban currently on the......
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Mike Feuer Proposes Statewide Digital Billboard Ban

Christine Pelisek
In a strong rebuke of the Los Angeles City Council, which did not conduct a single discussion of safety issues before approving hundreds of digital billboards that have now begun to sweep across Los Angeles, California State Assemblyman Mike Feuer  (D-Los Angeles) proposed a law Friday to ban LED billboards......
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A Community's "Grim Sleeper" Vigil

Christine Pelisek
Around 50 church leaders, community activists, family members, and friends along with a handful of Los Angeles Police Department Robbery/Homicide detectives gathered Wednesday evening to remember the 11 victims of the Grim Sleeper, a serial killer who has beenmurdering mostly African American women in South Los Angeles since 1985. (The......