On a positive note, I always knew when either my client’s or their opponent’s campaigns were in trouble when the focus was on yard sign wars. People focused on protecting or attacking totems aren’t doing the real work of winning their battles.

It is not. Privately produced signs are not allowed to be in the right of way on a property. ROW is the space between the street and the sidewalk or 18 feet if there is no sidewalk. During elections, the City road crews usually pull these but you might want to let them know the sign is illegal and could be pulled. You might also want to let them know they are telling a decent part of the Austin market where NOT to open a bank account.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6971471/18122733

Based on what that video says, I’d guess that particular sign was illegal — it’s only a few inches from the street.

Of course, if they’re being defaced, he wouldn’t be doing that. But I have heard of anti-sign crusaders spray-painting over the phone numbers and web sites of signs as a quicker way of discouraging it.

Really, my point is that it might not be bicycle boulevard supporters who are doing it — and part of it might be the city itself!

http://cycling.frenzied.us/2010-02-24-Nueces_Bicycle_Blvd_Open_House/tn/img_5223.jpg.html

is that legal? (It was on Nueces, near 5th or so.) The city does have laws about where signs can be put, but I’m not familiar with the specifics.