You may have noticed these lovely signs adorning some of H Street's trees in the higher umber blocks of the corridor (these shots are from the 1300 block). But did you notice that the sign hanger (and these are illegal anyway) actually stapled the signs to the trees?
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I believe the city has a sign ordinance--falling under DCRA or DDOT. Yes, the stapled sign definitely is illegal (and harmful to the trees).
Again, enforcement of such ordinances is lacking on H Street, where businesses routinely plaster their storefronts with vinyl signs--meant to be temporary--but which end up being permanent.
You can report these violations to the NIMO (DDOT public space enforcement), 645-7051 or -7050.
I'm pretty sure these trees are all about to get ripped out and replaced as part of DDOT's streetscape project.
Whether the trees getting ripped out or not doesn't matter. It's quality-of-life. Someone has no regard and is treating our neighborhood as their billboard.
tristrami is right. While these trees most likely will be removed (and the tree in the foreground of inked's photo already looks dead), this type of behavior should be discouraged now so it's not repeated once the H Street makeover is complete.
These postings are a real eyesore but they'll be down in short time. I get fired up about those signs pasted on newspaper boxes, light posts, utility boxes, etc. While it is legal to post in these locations, you cannot leave them up indefinitely. Also, you can only put up a certain number per block and you can't use permanent adhesive. How long ago was the Million More March? How long ago was the Cease-fire demonstration? I'm sick of otherwise well-meaning public interest groups trashing our neighborhood. I've called the city and the numbers visible on the posts. No luck.
I would need to verify this, but I'm pretty sure that:
1. you are always supposed to get a permit for postings
2. you can't paste things
3. you can't staple things (you definitely can't staple things to trees)
4. you must remove them after a certain number of days.
*I noticed that somone ripped all these signs down in the 1300 block of H Street. I'm pretty sure it wasn't just the fierce winds last night, because the ruins of the posters were not strewn about the street.
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