Sidewalk advertisements are everywhere, blooming from the pavement and parking lots in colorful bursts. Fluttering flags in Center City hawk cell phones, while inflatable men of disquieting size ...

Some portable sidewalk signs placed to direct customers to a business are illegal in Corvallis, although the rule is widely ignored downtown as business use sandwich boards to attract customers.

• If a business has a setback of more than five feet from the sidewalk, portable signs would have to be on that private property rather than the sidewalk. • Each property would be limited to two ...

CALISTOGA — The attention-grabbing, lightweight and portable A-frame signs that dot Lincoln Avenue sidewalks are often placed illegally and must be discontinued, city officials said. “We’ve come to ...