Council anger over billboards

Voicing the same anger and frustration residents have experienced in the battle against digital billboards, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday complained over the time it has taken for its own agencies to investigate how many signs are in the city and the cost to inspect them. Daily News.

"Give me a break," Councilman Richard Alarc n said. "No one has explained to me why this takes more than a week to get a report in here on cost recovery and what it costs to inspect billboards."

There are an estimated 4,000 billboards in the city, and efforts to find them have been hampered by lawsuits filed by the billboard industry over imposing the fees needed to cover the cost of inspectors.