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State bill on billboards

SlaveToTheGrind

SlaveToTheGrind

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Anyone else hate billboards as much as I do? From the local APA legislative committee:

SB219 – Highway Signage Amendments – haven’t seen a bill regarding billboards for a while, but here one is, finally. This bill has to do with signs that need to be relocated or can no longer be visible due to highway construction, reconstruction or modification. Under current law, the sign owner has the right to relocate the sign within certain distances and to certain zones, and can only be as high as current regulations permit. This bill would allow signs to be raised to a height of 65 feet, or more than 65 feet to make the entire content of the sign visible to traffic. This applies to signs that currently do not meet regulations for where they are located, including non-conforming signs. Oh, and the bill also says the sign owner can begin construction 30 days after making the written request. Amazing!
 
Current Indiana Bill being considered -

Senate Bill 167 Relocation of outdoor advertising signs.
Digest
Provides that the Indiana department of transportation or a zoning authority may not apply zoning standards or require a permit to relocate certain outdoor advertising signs. Provides that an existing outdoor advertising sign located within the boundaries of an excluded city may not be relocated outside the excluded city unless the county or municipality to which the outdoor advertising sign will be relocated approves of the relocation. Allows a zoning authority to permit or inspect a relocated outdoor advertising sign if the purpose is to ensure compliance with certain safety standards.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Anyone else hate billboards as much as I do? From the local APA legislative committee:

SB219 – Highway Signage Amendments – haven’t seen a bill regarding billboards for a while, but here one is, finally. This bill has to do with signs that need to be relocated or can no longer be visible due to highway construction, reconstruction or modification. Under current law, the sign owner has the right to relocate the sign within certain distances and to certain zones, and can only be as high as current regulations permit. This bill would allow signs to be raised to a height of 65 feet, or more than 65 feet to make the entire content of the sign visible to traffic. This applies to signs that currently do not meet regulations for where they are located, including non-conforming signs. Oh, and the bill also says the sign owner can begin construction 30 days after making the written request. Amazing!
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...I think that I shall never see...
 
I assume this is Indiana. Last year, I drove through Richmond (the one in Indiana) on the way to a job interview. Shameful.

It's surprising how uncommon billboards are now in the Buffalo area; at least Erie County. Some along the 190 between the 90 and downtown, some along the 33, some in industrial areas along the 290 and 400, some scattered nonconforming stragglers elsewhere throughout the region, but that's about it. Of the remaining billboards, I'd say about a quarter are electronic. I know there's an old forgotten eight-sheet somewhere on Buffalo's East Side - remember those?

The stretch of the 90 mainline through the Seneca reservation, on the other hand, makes Missouri look pristine in comparison.

New York's municipalities tend to have (for the most part - I'm looking at you, Niagara Falls) fairly restrictive billboard regulations, if they don't ban them entirely. However, they're behind the curve when it comes to requiring short monument signs instead of pole signs. There's not many high rise signs (for the most part - I'm looking at you, Niagara Falls) in NYS, but there's no equivalent to the monument sign meccas in suburban Cleveland or Denver, either.
 
The billboard lobby in Utah has been historically strong. Personally, I don't like them and now in the age of GPS and the capabilities of phones and vehicles, there is no need for a billboard. Really no need prior. Before the electronic age, you used the paper map and planned your trip ahead of time.
 
A story by George Saunders has two characters walking a city sidewalk, where facial recognition reads their eyes and fines them if they have not read advertising with the minimum number of encounters.
That is where electronic ads are going.
 
Reno has a ban on new billboards, but if you take one down you get what's called a "bank receipt" and can use that to erect the same square footage somewhere else in the city. You can sell the bank receipts, but if they aren't used within a certain time they expire.

The billboards in Reno are all for personal injury lawyers and casino shows.
 
jumbach said:
Reno has a ban on new billboards, but if you take one down you get what's called a "bank receipt" and can use that to erect the same square footage somewhere else in the city. You can sell the bank receipts, but if they aren't used within a certain time they expire.

The billboards in Reno are all for personal injury lawyers and casino shows.
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Wow- billboard cap and trade!

My community also banned internally-illuminated signs probably 20 years ago- we still have a handful hanging on- Home Depot and a (dead) Bed, Bath and Beyond.
 
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