City of Dallas Bans Window Signs for Small Business
www.ij.org Under a Dallas law enacted in 2008, businesses are prohibited from putting signs in the upper two-thirds of any window or glass door, and no more than 15 percent of any window or glass door may be covered by signs. The only way to comply with the new ordinance is by putting tiny signs at peoples feet—which is not an effective way to advertise. The law also bans signs that cover more than 25 percent of a buildings façade. Failure to take down the signs means you are at risk to be hit with a fine up to 00. The law only targets commercial messages. Businesses are free to put anything except a commercial message in their windows. For example, a business could paint a giant Dallas Cowboys helmet on its window—but not advertise that it offers Cowboys merchandise for sale inside. Businesses can paint their windows black or put coolers or other items in front of them. In fact, businesses are not even required to have windows at all. What they cannot do is put messages in their windows that tell customers about the products and services offered inside.
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he sounds like a real idiot!
oh, god! what the ^@#*% next?
Texas - sure. Dallas city itself? cholk full of nuts just like any big city. Dallas city council has managed to lose some big businesses to other cities and is doing its best to drive away small businesses. The Dallas Cowboy’s stadium is not even in Dallas. It’s in Arlington! Well done. Oh, I live in the DFW area. Not Dallas proper.
@whoo689 Probably some stagnant, mediocre “established” business with friends on the city council who got tired of all these uppity small businesses eating into their profit margins.
WOW I thought texas was supposed to be one of the more free states
Obviously, TOO MUCH CLUTTER in the minds of the boobs at Dallas city hall. Better call Chuck Norris to kick some #### at city hall.
This is yet another case of someone in power deciding they don’t like something and requiring everyone else to follow their whims. Apparently someone thought they looked tacky and changed the rules.
Thing is, if window signs were tacky, customers wouldn’t go into such a tacky establishment.
I live in Dallas and wasn’t aware of this. This used to be a fairly libertarian city, but unfortunately it has gradually been taken over by statist morons.
Houston FTW. Seriously. This would never happen in Houston. They don’t regulate you to death. Houston is far from perfect, but on this one, Dallas is inferior.
I’m from Dallas and I’m both surprised and embarassed. We usually have more sense than this. I consider myself pretty active and informed and wasn’t aware of this stupidity. I suspect that when more folks become informed of this, it will be repealed.
Just remember, this is the City of Dallas proper, which like many urban communities, is an amalgamation of sloppy seconds after suburban districts and others leave to form their own home rule areas. This leaves Dallas predominantly white liberal and poor black urban minority in nature.
This is the same Dallas that has a city councilman who believes the expression “black hole” is racist.
“Last fall, Dallas City Council outlawed advertisements in the upper two-thirds of store windows and glass doors in an effort to reduce clutter and make it easier for police to see inside while patrolling and during emergencies.”
LOL! Ook… Since when is it gov’t’s job to ‘reduce clutter” on store windows? And ‘easier to see inside’ during emergencies?? Why the fuck would a cop need to see inside your business from outside during an emergency? Like you’re too dumb to help yourself out?
enacted in 2008?? Why did it take so long for IJ to make a video about this?
I wonder what the justification for THIS nanny-state intrusion was?
“Customers are easily swindled and forced to buy shit they don’t want or for too high a price by window ads”?
lol, wut?
City council dumbasses
Dallas should be ashamed of itself.
The courts will shoot that down.
what kind of crock is this, I would expect something like this in San Fransicko
it make me remember a law in Ste-Foy where street sign were prohibited.