West Hollywood wants to ban open house signs

Just when you thought local city governments couldn't get any sillier: West Hollywood wants to ban Realtor open house signs on its city corners on Sundays. Read the L.A. Times article here.

Good luck, Weho. The City of Burbank went through the same process a few years ago. The reason given for the city's ban was that "somebody could fall on one of the signs and get hurt." A year and lots of hearings later, Burbank relented -- as long as Realtors observed many restrictions AND paid a permit fee.

Currently, local Realtors are working to be able to put flags up in the front yards of Sunday open houses. Again, this "issue" has been kicked around the City of Burbank for close to a year. Mind you, this has to do with flags on private property. There is no limit on how many campaign signs one can have in their front yard, but I guess that's different.