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As an editorial<\/a> in The Dallas Morning News noted, “a park is designed as a place of peace and recreation, not another place to have your attention stolen.”<\/p>\n Alas, the city seems intent on turning over its public spaces to advertisers. Last year, the city approved a plan to place up to 150 digital advertising kiosks<\/a>\u00a0that look like giant iPhones<\/p>\n on its already too-crowded sidewalks. That plan, according to the city, could raise some $67 million over 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Sunset Spectacular in Los Angeles. (Mark Lamster)<\/p>\n The parks proposal is even worse: It would allow for digital billboards of up to 2,500 square feet to be placed within designated park spaces. For this, the city would receive a relatively paltry $10 million annually.\u00a0<\/p>\n Among the design examples the proposal cites is the Sunset Spectacular, a 67-foot-tall architectural billboard on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip that has achieved notoriety<\/a> for its designer’s allegedly abusive workplace behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n The fact that city staff believes the Sunset Strip \u2014 perhaps the most famously advertising-rich stretch of road in America \u2014 is an applicable model for, say, Reverchon Park or White Rock Lake, suggests a<\/p>\n lack of design intelligence, not to mention common sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dallas faces a difficult budget deficit<\/a>, but selling out its public spaces is no way to solve the problem, and in the long run will only exacerbate its tax revenue problem by making the city a less appealing place to live and work.\u00a0<\/p>\n There is but one possible answer to this proposal: No.\u00a0<\/p>\n Subscribe<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dallas_morning_news_articles_211\/30ca8943deb425447e7ab339231184d8.jpg\"\/)
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