Re: “Seattle council considers 8-foot-tall digital billboards in downtown” (Could 9, Native Information):
These flashing screens can have a deleterious impact on the city character of our metropolis. Every kiosk will permit static and shifting pictures. After we are attempting to wean kids from their screens and we all know how detrimental that is to the social cloth, why on this planet would we approve this for our metropolis?
This program violates town signal code and would by no means be authorised below the code. The decision granting “conceptual approval” to the thought is a shameful means of undermining longstanding metropolis coverage.
The impetus for it is a vibrant, shiny bauble for World Cup 2026 guests. That may be a monthlong occasion. Quite than tackle actual wants of downtown, it is a advertising and marketing rip-off that advantages IKE Good Metropolis and offers away our public realm for a pittance. These have been positioned in a lot of cities with the identical design and homogenize public area. They get vandalized and ignored by the general public. Cluttering up our sidewalks with digital kiosks is antithetical to making a welcoming metropolis.
I urge the Metropolis Council to vote “no.”
Ellen Sollod, Seattle, former vice chair, Seattle Design Fee
