Just what we need, more billboards!

Everybody who likes billboards, raise your hands... Now those who oppose them...

OK, all of you on both sides of this fence better show up at the Racine Plan Commission meeting this afternoon (5 p.m., City Hall, Room 205) to make your feelings known.

Adams Outdoor Advertising is proposing to erect new and/or improved billboards at the following locations:

Improved: 1101 Washington Avenue; 1301 West Sixth Street; 2200 Douglas Avenue; 2218 Douglas Avenue. (Note: "Improved" is a synonym for "bigger" in billboard-land.)

New: 1601 Twenty-First Street (2100 Block of S. Memorial Drive); 1623 De Koven Avenue; 1673-75 State Street; 1728 North Memorial Drive; 3026 Mt. Pleasant Street; 3640 Northwestern Avenue.

Most of these are standard 12' by 25' billboards, replacing existing smaller signs. The one at 2218 Douglas, however, would be much larger, 14' by 48', and the ones proposed for 1673-75 State Street and 3026 Mt. Pleasant are double-sided and electronic.

(Just helping relieve the boredom of driving, by providing you something to read...)

For maps showing the specific locations, go HERE.

UPDATE: Dozens say "no." Plan commission defers action. (Thanks, "FYI!")