Pretty soon the whole city will be wrapped ads.
In his inaugural speech as City Council President early this month, Darrell Clarke promised to look for new sources of revenue and put advertising on public property front and center. Clarke said:
I’m not saying that we should put a billboard on top of Billy Penn’s hat. But if we work together, we can realize revenues to help pay for essential services, while still preserving the character of our public spaces.
Weeks earlier, Clarke introduced a bill in City Council to authorize ads on public property. At the time, the bill was referred to the Committee on Rules, but now that it’s a new year look for this bill to be back before Council sooner than later.
Comments
While this is all well and good as far as bringing in more revenue there will be some who will not like what it does for the scenery around town. I hope that some of the landscape and beauty of many of the buildings will be left untouched by wrapped ads.
There are times when money should not interfere with things in order to start getting to the bottom of things and putting wrapped ads nearly everywhere in a city does not sound good.