De Blasio Defends Billboard Owners
By Azi PaybarahAt a rally on the City Hall steps this morning, Bill de Blasio said the city buildings department is unfairly levying expensive fines to billboard owners for relatively harmless infractions, while more serious violations at construction sites often get hit with less expensive fines--providing little incentive to improve safety.
De Blasio, who represents parts of brownstown Brooklyn and is running for public advocate this year, said aggressive fines for billboard owners is similar to the increased number of parking tickets issued by the police department.
“Once again, we see a pattern: the Buildings Department finding every opportunity to grab all the revenue possible,” de Blasio said.
De Blasio said he wants the agency to lower their fines and reform billboard regulations.
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The NYC Buildings Department
The NYC Buildings Department is the worst run agency.
If you want to taste hell on earth go to the buildings Department for a day.
Its time someone stood up to them.
Hopefully they will be totally restructured to a competent level so the people of NY can get their business done smoothly.
Go Bill!
Finally, someone is
Finally, someone is defending billboards in NYC. I love them. Compared to LA, NYC has very little billboards. When they're done in a fashionable way, they're invaluable to the City, both in supporting jobs and the economy
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