It is your right to limit the delivery of materials to your privateI'm with Tony on this one. Sure, I get irritated at the flyers that keep turning up; after all, how much variation is there among pizzerias? But, I think I'd much rather allow nearly anyone to "broadcast" news, ideas and opinions. (And as the recent "Hack" meeting indicates, flyers and leaftlets can be very useful.)
property. However, I would remind anti-leafleters that you can't have your cake and eat it! If you grumble because people attempt to communicate to your home about pizza deliveries or public meetings in your area, you can try to cut yourself off from all such people. But in doing so, you can no longer grumble about the failure of people to consult with the community or alert residents when something comes up that you later wish they had notified you about. You can try to isolate yourself from the unruly city around you, or you can remain open to its constant blur of outreach and sift through the stuff that rains upon your doorstep in good humor.
I recommend the latter approach. "Circular Free" decals are bad for civic communication. A neighborhood with too many of them will be a neighborhood that's poor at talking to itself.
On a related front, I'd like to throw a suggestion out to the community. A few months ago, when we were getting the Clark Park Festival ready, we were a little frustrated because we couldn't do posters as much as we used to because UCD's been, well, pretty efficient at cleaning them up. (And as we all know, the Clark Park festival posters have had a tradition of being a lot nicer to look at than most.) But, the city laws regarding posters are pretty clear-cut, and UCD's simply enforcing what the city has as law.
But posters do seem to be a good thing for active communities (European cities have them on many intersections), and they are a centuries-old tradition. Has anyone noticed that cylindrical poster kiosk (or whatever it's called) along the 40th block of Pine street? Seems to me that these'd be a really nice thing to have throughout the neighborhood, say, at particular street corners, and smaller design could be used in the front yards of people who'd be willing to shoulder the responsibility of cleaning and maintenance. (I'd been thinking of doing something like this myself, but I can't find a design that's both attractive and buildable within my skill-set.)
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