Lehigh Valley Live reports that the Bethlehem Zoning Board turned down a request by Adams Outdoor for 4 variances to construct a 616 square foot digital billboard at 213 Union Station Plaza along the Hill to Hill Bridge. Adams already owns a billboard on city property on the other […]
Some bad ideas simply refuse to go away. California wants to get into the billboard business by selling licensing rights to display color changeable-message ads on the highway public right of way. Advertising revenue would pay to replace aging traffic signs with modern LED displays and also pump new revenue […]
Should a billboard hold up development? That’s the provocative headline of a Post Bulletin article. Fairway has a legal two sided conforming billboard on the site pictured above in downtown Rochester, Minnesota. EKN Development wants to add an 8 story building on the site and has approached Rochester to ask for […]
The Morning Call reports the Nazareth Borough Council is concerned about a digital billboard which Abe Atiyeh wants to construct at Route 248 and Green Street. He was granted a variance for the digital billboard in June 2017. The board thinks the sign is a safety issue because it is […]
Hunger for new money to pay for roads and bridges continues to push government to offer pieces of the public right of way for sale. This is worrisome in that it creates state-sponsored advertising which will compete with your out of home business. Here’s the latest: 1.) What just happened […]
By Chris Zukin, President, Meadow Outdoor Advertising, Dalles, OR Governor Kate Brown signed long-sought legislation April 10th , 2018 to protect billboards from un-compensated government taking. In the past, the state paid only salvage value. The new law requires the state to pay full compensation for loss of an outdoor […]
The Morning Call reports that Adams presented the case for a 616 square foot digital sign along the Hill to Hill bridge in Bethlehem during a three hour hearing in front of the Bethlehem Zoning Hearing board. Adams wants a variance to: construct a 616 square foot sign versus a […]
Lamar sued Columbus Grove, OH after the Village Council voted against allowing it to put two billboards in the village. The company wanted to put billboards on State Route 65. It obtained leases from the landlord CSX Transportiation and state permits. The Planning commissioner approved the applications but the council […]
If you put a picture of a New York City billboard on your website and aren’t registered as an out of home company in New York City you may get a summons from the city to register as an out of home advertising company or face a fine of $25,000 […]
The federal government is supporting the State of Tennessee’s defense of its billboard law as a constitutional regulation that does not violate free speech. On March 5, the US Justice Department filed a friend-of-the-court brief (amicus) in the case Thomas v. Schroer. You can read the brief here. This gesture […]
