Banners May Promote Community Events

In an effort to boost advertising of community events, banners held up by 25-foot-high poles may soon be installed along Harbor Boulevard downtown.

The City Council this week decided to seek bids for installation of the poles and try to determine whether community organizations would use the banners.

Under the plan, only the city and local nonprofit organizations would be allowed to display banners.

After bids are received in six weeks, the council will decide whether to move ahead with the project or postpone it until 1999, said F. Paul Dudley, the city’s director of development services.

In other council action this week, officials granted a permit to a business owner who plans to open a self-service storage facility at 1209-1335 W. Commonwealth Ave.

Residents had said they feared the facility would attract criminals. They cited a recent incident in which police found illegal drugs stored in such a self-storage facility.