Marks Aims to Limit Bail Bonds Signage

Towson residents have complained about the innappropriate signage outside the businesses.

(Update 4:52 p.m.)— Councilman David Marks is introducing legislation to impose restrictions on signage outside bail bonds businesses, which community members call inappropriate. The legislation, which would appear before the County Council on Tuesday, would involve limiting the bail bonds businesses to one 6 square feet sign apiece with no illumination. The trouble started when Double D Bail Bonds, located at 11 E. Chesapeake Ave.—across from the Towson branch of the Baltimore County Public Library—opened in late 2011 with a sign featuring a busty woman in handcuffs and jail stripes with generous cleavage. "We thought it was outrageous when that happened way back when," said Paul Hartman, president of the Greater Towson Council of …

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