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Unified Parking Partners continues to flout the city's sidewalk sign laws. They put their sign back up at the corner of Congress and Park streets today. As you can see in the photo they put some kind of white tape over the Unified Parking Partners name and logo.
On several occasions this week they have employed a person to stand at the corner of Park and Congress streets holding UPP signs and orange flags in an attempt to direct traffic down Park Street.
While UPP may believe (erroneously) that they are exploiting loopholes in the city's sign codes by putting tape on their signs or having someone hold them, what is clear is that they have no intention of complying with the law.
I hope city staff will act quickly to put a stop to UPP's flagrant defiance of the regulations that exist to protect our streetscapes from this kind of visual clutter.
also asked...
A. NO
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Donna (Registered User)
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The only issue here is whether UPP's signs on Congress Street comply with the city's sign codes. They do not. It's really that simple.
Yes, many downtown businesses use sidewalk signs, and from what I see they generally comply with the requirements of the sign code, the primary one being that are located within 20 feet of the business.
Geets (Registered User)
It appears that the UPP business model is to trick people into parking in their lots so they can punish them when they are unable to comply with their ridiculous & unrealistic terms of use... which, BTW, are in fine print & poorly lit...
UPP should expect that a patron of theirs, out of an evening event, would want to park for say, 4 hours... yet that option is not available to them... Who wants to leave in the middle of a concert or sporting or family event to renew their parking?
Their lots are nothing but traps for unsuspecting out-of-towners, and these flaggers & sidewalk signs are "bait" to get people to ultimately pay the punitive rates in order to get their car back... This appears to be their business model... to punish... That's where the big money is...They are desperate to lure people in... and will deft the city code to do so...even by mimicking the look of Portland's "pay & display" program... In the end, it all reflects poorly on the City of Portland...
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