City Council is considering a proposal to lift the ban on sidewalk sandwich boards — ie, the free-standing, A-shaped signs that businesses used to place on the sidewalk to advertise their businesses. The Public Works department banned the signs, regarding them as a hazard to pedestrians. But neighborhood business owners — including many in northwest Denver, LoDo, and elsewhere in District 9 — value sandwich boards as an effective way to boost walk-up traffic to their stores.
Judy is gathering opinions from businesses and residents in District 9, as well as people who work in LoDo. If you feel strongly about this issue, yea or nay, leave a comment here at the blog or call Judy’s office at (303) 458-8960.
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I live downtown and walk everywhere. I find the signs to ba a hazzard. I am almost blind in one eye and have almost collided with such signs on more than one occasion.
I agree. I don’t drive, so I ride my bicycle and walk a lot. The signs just get in the way and interfere with pedestrian and bicycle traffic. As an alternative, business owners can put signs on the outside walls of their businesses, as many already do.