Making the city ugly for $200k/year
The city is facing a $70 million shortfall. So city councilor Steve Desroches is proposing that the city license out twenty sites for billboards. Those 20 billboards will net the city $200,000 a year. Sure, they’ll be ugly; city staff will waste time (and money) ensuring proper zoning; and a few trees might have to be cut down to provide decent sight lines, but thats TWO HUNDRED BIG ONES!
Here at PiePalace, we believe in economies of scale. So we’re taking Steve’s idea and SUPER SIZING IT! That’s right. With seven thousand billboards, we could make up the entire shortfall! Sure, most of the city will disappear under a wall of McDick’s ads and signs shilling Timmies’ latest treats, but think of the taxes that will be saved!
(Update: Fixed calculation) Photo credit: Billboard Liberation Front, used without permission.
Howabout sponsorships, too!
The Coca-Cola Peace Tower? General Motors Presents the Canadian War Museum? And let’s just flat-out sell the naming rights to the word “Rideau” to the highest bidder! We’ll be rolling in money! City Hall will have a swimming pool filled with gold coins, and all Ottawans will be happy and prosperous forever!