Miami considers selling advertising space on public buildings, fire hydrants, rights-of-way

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Wednesday, 04.25.12
Miami considers selling advertising space on public buildings, fire hydrants, rights-of-way

By CHARLES RABIN AND ANDRES VIGLUCCI
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Fresh off a controversy over its preliminary approval of electronic billboards that Miami-Dade County says are illegal, the city of Miami has set off a new flap as it gets set to consider opening up the public streets and sidewalks to revenue-producing ads — on everything from lamp posts to fire hydrants, public buildings, fences and highway supports.

City administrators and lawyers say the measure, originally scheduled for a preliminary vote by the commission Thursday, is meant to allow Miami’s parking authority to sell ads on new on-street parking pay stations now popping up all over town, as well as on contemplated bicycle-parking street stations.

But the measure, which would lift long-standing restrictions on ads in the public-right-of-way, is so broadly worded that some interpret it as also allowing the city to place ads on all manner of public “fixtures’’ — including, specifically, “shade trees.’’

City attorney Julie Bru said Wednesday that the city would not seek to nail ads to trees, and added the measure might require “changes’’ to clarify the types of fixtures to which ads could be attached.


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[Fumesucker]

1. Well I guess they'll be using screws to attach the ads to the trees... n/t

[secondwind]

2. They can paste them on to trees? oh, that's different [sarcasm]

This country obviously means different things to a Republican.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Keep it classy Miami.

[tanyev]

4. Fire hydrants? For what, Milk Bone dog biscuits?

[appal_jack]

8. Could be an intriguing condom marketing platform.

Fire hydrants could become an intriguing condom marketing platform.

Oh, wait, Republicans would hate that...

-app

On edit: All humor aside, this country (Republican cities such as Miami especially) becomes more like the dystopian cyberpunk nightmare envisioned by Phillip K. Dick & William Gibson every day.

[qb]

5. What an embarrassing spectacle that would be.

:puke;

[saras]

6. I guess they're tired of being a tourist town

[geomon666]

7. This toilet of a city is corrupt to its core.

These guys would make slavery legal if they could. Not surprised they want to slather advertising feces all over everything to soak in more money for themselves.