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Van Wagner, which also operates in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., says it gets calls almost daily from landlords eager to make extra money by renting out billboard space on their buildings. The vast majority of the time, it doesn’t work out, says Mark Johnston, the company’s chief financial officer, because of intricate city rules on which districts may sport billboards and how far they must stand from parks, arterial highways and other sensitive spots. When the company thinks it has a likely spot, staffers experts comb through rules and maps to make sure the board will work, then negotiate with landlords for a billboard lease. Last, they apply for a city permit to put up the board. Outdoor advertising companies frequently play cat and mouse games with city officials. In California, for example, a state law allows illegally erected billboards that manage to avoid citation for five years or more to be considered legal. Legislation introduced in April is trying to close this loophole. In Los Angeles, some city officials believe that many boards either lack permits or have expanded beyond what their permit allows, for example, standing taller, wider or having two or three faces instead of just one. The city’s building and safety department is taking inventory.
http://www.commercialalert.org/news/archive/2007/07/billboards-and-loopholes

Man ’der pump, mateys!

You really have to go to the Valley to get the worst. Pretty much every intersection on Van Nuys Blvd. is an eyesore.

There should be one station in the SFV and it should be placed to connect to the Santa Clarita and Camarillo Metrolink lines, Amtrak Santa Barbara and the Van Nuys corridor Metrorail line.

@Trey:
Don’t fall into the common trap whereby the perfect becomes the enemy of the good. Any line down Ventura, which isn’t even included in Measure R, would by necessity be underground, and therefore obscenely expensive. In short, it’s not going to get built in our lifetimes.

Having the Van Nuys line and having a station at Ventura/Sepulveda aren’t mutually exclusive. You can capture all of that traffic you reference from the Orange line, the existing Van Nuys blvd busses, and from Sylmar, and still include a station at Sepulveda instead of Van Nuys/Ventura. Would it add to the cost? Certainly. Would it drive additional ridership on a 405 line? Just as certain. I guess the question, which none of us have a concrete answer for, is that do the trade-offs look like in terms of incremental ridership vs. cost. I think we can all agree that, all things being equal, you are going to see more ridership at Sepulveda/Ventura vs. Van Nuys/Ventura. But you can only do so much with limited budgets. That said, I’d rather see them go for this station if there is momentum for this 405 line now, rather than wait 40 years for a Ventura Blvd line that may never come.

Sam taylor. Sepulveda/Ventura is like Universal City of the Red Line North of the Orange Line, yes Van Nuys is it but until then its Sepulveda. And given that its currently 1% of the trips this rail station and corridor would serve it and that would increase even more. Besides going in a straight line doesnt automatically equate to ridership.

@Anthony Costantino: Actually Sepulveda / Ventura is not the connection of value, unless you are a motorist or a car culture person. The straight alignment is between
UCLA / Westwood and Van Nuys / Ventura. The cost to serve Ventura / Sepulveda is about $750 million for an additional 2 miles of alignment off of the Van Nuys Blvd. Corridor.

Van Nuys Blvd. is the 10th busiest transit corridor in Los Angeles County and with rail service north to Panorama City and south to Westwood, it would become perhaps the 5th busiest corridor.

I note that there are high-rise buildings at Ventura / Sepulveda, but with all the transit there, the bus service market share for transit trips to those buildings is about 1% of the trips.

Fast inter-regional connectivity is the key issue here.

To renovate a home and resell/flip in Florida you must be a Licensed Contractor. The show says Van Winkle, ICE, is a contractor. Search Florida records, he is NOT a certified or registered contractor. How is this allowed? Nationally exploiting unlicensed work to be glorified on television by a washed up wanna be musician turned contractor?

@Trey:

But if you’re going in a straight line under the mountains from UCLA and you will be TUNNELLING under the mountains, why not take that extra 1/2 mile or so and boost the overall ridership. Notice the Red Line the first stop north out of the Cauhenga Pass and into the Valley is Universal City a ridership generator. What ridership generation do we have at Van Nuys/Ventura? Casa De Cadillac?

@Trey:

But if you’re going in a straight line under the mountains from UCLA and you will be TUNNELLING under the mountains, why not take that extra 1/2 mile or so and boost the overall ridership. Notice the Red Line the first stop north out of the Cauhenga Pass and into the Valley is Universal City a ridership generator. What ridership generation do we have at Van Nuys/Ventura? Casa De Cadillac?