Comments on: Great Shots: Yoko’s Peace http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/01/09/great-shots-yokos-peace/ New Buildings, Construction, Destruction, Planning, Real Estate, and Gossip as it happens in the Nation's Capital Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Brendan http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/01/09/great-shots-yokos-peace/#comment-4192 Brendan Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:07:28 +0000 http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/01/09/great-shots-yokos-peace/#comment-4192 It's a loophole that has not been closed. Billboards are indeed illegal in DC. The problem is the definition of billboard is circa 1930 and new fiber/printing technologies circa 2000 allow for giant billboard-sized banners that by DC's strict definition of "billboards" are not actually billboards. That's why these giant signs are all over town: they're not technically billboards. It’s a loophole that has not been closed.

Billboards are indeed illegal in DC. The problem is the definition of billboard is circa 1930 and new fiber/printing technologies circa 2000 allow for giant billboard-sized banners that by DC’s strict definition of “billboards” are not actually billboards. That’s why these giant signs are all over town: they’re not technically billboards.

]]> By: Anonymous http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/01/09/great-shots-yokos-peace/#comment-4191 Anonymous Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:57:37 +0000 http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/01/09/great-shots-yokos-peace/#comment-4191 Seriously? No more billboards? I liked them. Made it seem like we were a real city that advertisers cared about---am I the only one that finds the advertisements on the metro for helicopters and such to be totally irrelevant? Seriously? No more billboards? I liked them. Made it seem like we were a real city that advertisers cared about—am I the only one that finds the advertisements on the metro for helicopters and such to be totally irrelevant?

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