Tag: regulations

GEFT Outdoor Wins Evansville Case

A US District Court Judge for the Southern District of Indiana ruled yesterday in favor of GEFT Outdoor in its case versus the City of Evansville.  GEFT sued Evansville after being denied a variance request to construct a digital billboard.  Here are links to the Court’s Entry on Cross Motions […]

OAAA Helps Defeat Attempt to Prohibit Vegetation Control

By Kerry Yoakum, Vice President of Government Affairs, OAAA Last week a Democratic Congressman from New England wanted to amend the Highway Beautification Act (HB) to prohibit vegetation control for billboard visibility.  The OAAA helped block the amendment.  This week the same amendment was refiled by Republicans Nancy Mace of […]

Lamar Sues City When “Welcome Signs” Skip Zoning Process

Lamar is suing a township in Pennsylvania that allowed another sign company (PTM Signs) to build “welcome signs.” Actually, Lamar claims, these signs are billboards that circumvented the zoning process (Lamar et al v. Township of Robinson). “PTM Signs were approved by the Robinson Board of Commissioners under the guise […]

Will the Supreme Court take up Austin’s sign code appeal?

Lots of speculation as to whether the US Supreme Court will take up an appeals court decision that the city of Austin’s ban on off-premise digital billboards violates the First Amendment.  The case is Reagan and Lamar versus City of Austin.   Austin has approved a legal services agreement with a […]

Tennessee House Finance committees approve law fix

House bill 2255, a proposed fix to Tennessee’s state sign law, unanimously passed a House Finance Subcommittee and the House Finance Ways and Means Committee and goes to House Rules Committee.  Two key changes were made to the bill. The penalty for an illegal billboard under the State’s sign law […]

Redeker on Working with City Permit Staff

Greg Redeker is a Real Estate Manager for Stott Outdoor Advertising.   Greg spent  20 years working for local government, most of that time as an urban planner.  He also served as a zoning administrator and was lead author for a comprehensive sign ordinance update.  Greg is writing a series of […]

Court Strikes Warnings for Premium Cigars

A federal judge ruled that regulators “failed to articulate a reasoned basis” for mandating warning labels for premium cigar advertising and packaging. Warnings for premium cigars, which had not gone into effect, were vacated by US District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta on February 3, 2020 (Cigar Association of America […]

Trivisions in a Digital World

Someone asked Insider why there are still trivisions in a digital world.  The answer is simple.  Regulations.  Yesterday, Insider passed a pair of Lamar trivisions along the West Seattle Freeway. The signs sit next to a busy freeway.  Why aren’t they digital?  Because Seattle prohibits digital billboards. Digital billboards on […]

Pittsburgh Gazette Urges City to Respect Lamar’s Property Rights

The Post Gazette has written an editorial urging the city to respect Lamar’s property rights and end the fight over the Mount Washington sign:  “Property rights are a fundamental right.  The government cannot impose arbitrary restriction on the use of one’s property if that use is legal – and indeed […]

Kansas City Considering New Digital Billboards

Fox4kc.com and 41KSHB report that Kansas City is considering a zoning ordinance 190514 to permit new digital billboards.    The city has had a ban on digital billboards since 2007.  Yesterday the planning commission held a hearing on the issue.  The proposal includes the following: A 7:1 takedown ratio.  7 […]