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We are writing to a k that Agenda Item 5 1 Digital Billboard be deferred The City Council considered this issue in November and sent it back to the Airport Commission.
The Airport Commission is holding a special study session on this topic this week 1/26/22 at 6PM followed by a regular meeting to consider the topic for a vote.
The issue is that this same topic is already back on the Council Agenda.
It was put on the agenda by Airport Staff.
We contend this is premature and not allowing sufficient time for either Council review or public input.
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Dear Airport Commissioners,
I strongly implore you to take a stance and reject the airport's plans to install the digital billboards on airport property. I am a victim of divided attention while traveling on our freeway system that resulted in a multiple car accident. I endure pain even after back surgery. The fact that these electronic billboards will be running six second commercials to draw the attention away from our residents commuting on the road is exactly why this should not be approved. San Jose residents have been polled and it is overwhelmingly found that the people of this city are against this proposal. It's sad
1/26/22, 2:33 PM Mail - Agendadesk - Outlook
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Please listen to the will of the people and not the power of the almighty dollar that will enrich the advertising community and add to the diminishing quality of life we deal with on a daily basis due to poor policy decisions. We need "common sense" decisions and support for our Vision Zero San Jose goal.
Sincerely,
Tim Clauson
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P.S. The ban has been in place since 1985.
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From city website/staffs initial recommendation:
“…any decision to allow new billboards is a weighty one with long-term implications; once billboards are in place, options for removing them are likely to be very expensive, regardless of changes in community expectations and public policy.”
January 26, 2022
Dear Airport Commission,
This is only reason this proposal is being pushed back to the Airport Commission is because of “big money”. It is just another attempt to wear down the common citizen. They are not doing us any favors with the reduction of static billboards; the current static billboards have been losing their value and big corporate advertisers have been replaced with accident injury attorneys. I’m sure new electronic billboards will be shiny and new at first but will have the same fate as the run-down static billboards.
People have cellphones to get their directions and information. It’s time to let billboards become a thing of the past.
The Vendome (see map below) is a small historic neighborhood in downtown San Jose (2 blocks wide by 9 blocks long). It includes a small park (Ryland) and two current static billboards. Our residential homes (many over 100 years old) are directly bordered by the SR87 freeway. We are in a unique location along the freeway as the only neighborhood in this area on the west side of North 1st Street.
The proposal starts with giant 1000 square foot digital billboards at the Airport which has been rejected by the public and the airport commission. Additionally, the phase one plan follows with many billboards targeted to freeway areas especially along SR87 from Julian to the airport. This will directly impact our residential neighborhood. The buffer zone between an electronic billboard and a residential home is only 150 feet. All residential areas should be exempt from having these disruptive billboards in their neighborhoods.
Also, on the west side of the SR87 is the Guadalupe River Parkway. While the parkland currently has other issues including homeless encampments, it has great potential to be a feature of the expanded downtown and North 1st Street Transit Village (plan for the future; think Golden Gate Park or Central Park). Our parks are invaluable and should be protected from billboard pollution.
While my neighborhood would be particularly affected by the two above issues, billboards in general are a type of pollution and blight. I find it telling that none of the renderings for the Google Village or other green development projects include billboards?? Develop and stick with a plan to eliminate all billboards in San Jose (Maybe a grassroots boycott of billboard advertisers?). 93% of residents surveyed opposed billboards on freeway facing property and 80% opposed billboards on buildings downtown.
Please represent the will of San Jose residents. You still have time to do the right thing and reject these misguided proposals again. The whole concept should be scrapped. Few might remember the 101 highway littered with billboards. The decade’s long ban has been in place for a reason. “Money isn’t everything…….”
Thank you.
Tod Williams