Downtown #SanJose has an identity problem and digital #billboards make it worse. Billboards are designed to distract. They overwhelm nearby architecture and the pedestrian street environment. What a mistake!

Video: drive.google.com/file/d/1PCXa...

#DTSJ #SiliconValley #Environment

The first new digital billboards installed in downtown #SJ are up and running. We fought to try to stop this because giant screens selling soda and other national brands is NOT the way to improve or attract people downtown. It’s a page out of the “how to wreck a downtown” handbook.

Given widespread opposition, why has the #SanJose City Council ignored public disapproval?

Is the City moving forward or backward? Consider the mindset of City Planners who worked to enact the ban on #billboards in the 1980s vs. where we are today.

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The #SanJose City Council approved 3 more new digital #billboards. Concerns from NDBSJ, residents, & environmental advocacy groups were ignored. Opening SJ to new BBs after a 40+ year ban is regressive, risky, and not the will of the people @MattMahanSJ

ACTION ALERT: First, they approved downtown digital billboards. Next week (6/17), the #SanJose City Council will consider more new #billboards @ 3 sites along freeways. See a pattern? The City's Phase 2 plan described 110 BBs.

See NDBSJ Action alert here:

tinyurl.com/freewaybbs

This #billboard is on East Santa Clara Street 2 blocks from #SanJose City Hall.

Should the City reward billboard companies with new opportunities without reviewing their track record?

No!!!

#SiliconValley #DTSJ #placemaking #environment #SJC

#SanJose District 3 residents will vote in a special election for a new City Council member in the coming weeks. NDBSJ sent a questionnaire about #billboards to the candidates.

Detailed candidate answers can be found here: tinyurl.com/ycxtdwe8

#DTSJ #SiliconValley #Environment #SJC

#Billboard company lobbyists began visiting #SanJose City Hall in 2018 and have wooed decision makers ever since.

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See full list of Orange Barrel Media lobbyist meetings here:
tinyurl.com/9ppva6ry

#SiliconValley #DTSJ #placemaking #environment

ABC7 Bay Area asks: “What kind of City does #SanJose want to be?” We assert that spreading light and sight polluting power hungry #digitalbillboards displaying ads for national brands all over the City is moving us in the wrong direction.

Video: tinyurl.com/5etpascd

San Jose approves digital #billboards sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-off...

Today’s #SanJose City Council meeting was like a love fest for the #billboard industry. Despite NDBSJ efforts to promote reasoned decisions, the City Council discounted all concerns and approved new digital BBs. 😢

Tomorrow the #SanJose City Council will vote on digital #billboards for downtown. Next month we expect another Council vote for more billboards at other sites. From there, the floodgate is open. This is not the kind of City most residents want. #DTSJ

See KPIX TV story:

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Group fears latest #billboard proposal will have long-ranging implications for #SanJose

www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/24/g...

#environment #DTSJ #SiliconValley #Environment #lightpollution #nightsky #Roadsafety #SJC #placemaking #ClimateCrisis #LickObservatory #darksky

ACTION ALERT: #SanJose City Council will vote next Tuesday February 25th on the proposal to install digital #billboards downtown. Contact your City Council representative and tell them to vote: No!
#DTSJ #SiliconValley #nightsky
Link for more information: tinyurl.com/23jcbspj

Hypocrisy. First the #SanJose City Council adopts a policy that says static #billboards should be taken down in low income neighborhoods. Then they forge ahead with a new billboard at a site where they think it's OK to marginalize people at the Guadalupe EIH housing project.