Who Hid the 1 Carter Peek-A-Boo Sign From Public View?

Where oh where is the sign?

If the residents of Sierra Madre cannot depend upon the people whose salaries they fund to protect their interests, what is the point of paying them? It is bad enough that the City Manager of this town refuses to hire people from Sierra Madre for important positions here. So perhaps there is a reason for this? That there should actually be more to the job than merely raking in development impact fees in order to fund six figure compensations for city employees seems to have gotten lost somewhere.

As I am certain you all know, 1 Carter has been one of the real bones of contention in the fight against mansionization in Sierra Madre for quite a long while. This has been going on for around a decade, with nothing having ever been built there. Not one single solitary house. This despite the blessings of the disastrous 2004 City Council, perhaps the worst this city ever produced. It was they who first threw this once wooded hillside open for all kinds of predatory development. The rest is history.

But that hardly means all such efforts ever stopped. A sign announcing a public hearing at the Planning Commission on August 20th for a starter castle at 11 Nathaniel Carter Terrace went up just a few days ago. The proposed building site is way up towards the end of the drive, so it would be an Arcadia-style overlord castle that will be visible upon the mountain top, and seen from all over the city.

What is hysterical is this sign is hidden behind a pillar. It is not visible if you're heading up Baldwin to Carter. You will see it if you drive from the east on Carter to Baldwin, but only a relatively few people actually go that way.

This is what you'll see if you are driving up to the top of Baldwin Avenue, by far the busiest route up there. It's a Peek-A-Boo Sign, right? By law that sign is supposed to be easily visible to the public. Can you see it?