These giant digital billboards, which I've covered extensively in the past, will fund the Downtown Seattle Association. It's kind of hard to imagine a worse deal for the city—allowing a private company to plunk massive moving billboards everywhere for the benefit of a private business group.

Seattle Council signs off on towering digital billboards

The vote is the first to turn over public right of way usage to a private company since the Seattle City Council approved the use of Pronto bike docks in 2014.

seattletimes.com