City Council doesn’t mind their electronic signs at their Sandler Center for the Performing Arts (for their donors) or their Convention Center (for their tourists).
Local businesses, however, can’t use them anymore.
City Council voted last night, with Barbara Henley leading the charge, to ban local businesses and churches from using new LED signs.
VB schools have them, but that’s just fine with the city. And the giant LED signs outside the Sandler Center and Convention Center attracted Council members to their ribbon cutting ceremonies.
Henley and her ilk think electronic signs are dangerous, so I would think a SCHOOL would be a horrible place for them. But the current school signs will not be impacted by this ban.
Of course, word is that the secret plans for the new Dome Site development has guess-what-kind-of-signs.
I smell “exception” in the air, don’t you?
Kind of like the exception the city will give itself for all of its existing electronic signs.
If the City Council wants to retain a modicum of credibility, they’d adopt the notion of abiding by the rules they impose on others, and take down every single Sandler/Convention/School LED sign.
Either that, or change Virginia Beach’s slogan from “A Community for a Lifetime” to “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.”
