The Daily Tribune says that Bartow County, Georgia and the city of Cartersville are going to hold talks to iron out streamlined intergovernmental guidelines for digital billboards. The article quotes a county planner: “the City has one requirement, the County has another requirement and the State has a third requirement […]
Insider found this post on the Ecologistics.org website: Do you think that landowners have an easy time getting billboards removed from their properties? Think again. A difficult reality confronts a landowner intending retirement and removal of a billboard which has an expired lease. When landowners no longer want their properties […]
KIRO 7 reports that some citizens are threatening to boycott the Thurston County car repair business which sits below a billboard which is running a marijuana ad. The problem is that the owners of the auto shop aren’t the landowners. They simply rent the space as does Lamar which owns […]
mdjonline.com reports that Cobb County, Georgia has agreed to permit Vision Outdoor Media to erect 8 new billboards in settlement of a lawsuit. Vision sued the County claiming its sign regulations were unconstitutional after the County turned down 22 billboard Applications last spring. Here are the settlement terms: Vision will […]
Longview News Journal says that Starbucks wants to demolish a building at 707 W Marshall in Longview, Texas and put up a coffee store. The problem is that a three sided Lamar billboard sits on the site and will have to go as well. Lamar has agreed to remove […]
New York is the latest city to grapple with billboard barges. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports that two city councilmembers have introduced a bill slapping Ballyhoo Media with a $100,000 fine for operating a 20′ by 60′ double sided digital billboard on New York waterways. Mayor de Blasio announced yesterday […]
By now, most of us have read in Billboard Insider and other publications about the US Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Reed vs Town of Gilbert, basically holding that regulatory distinctions based on the content of messages displayed on signs violate the First Amendment. But, what about the more fundamental […]
There was a lot of regulatory activity this week, so Insider highlights those that caught our eye. Seymour, Indiana – The city of Seymour is asking Lamar to take down four billboards on property the city wants to develop. Lamar, who owns the four double-faced structures has offered to remove […]
The Gainesville Times is reporting that after three years of negotiations, the City has reached a compromise to allow digital billboards. Fairway Outdoor has the majority of the 70 or so billboards and had submitted 15 applications to convert existing static boards to digital. All the applications were denied by […]
Insider has been reporting on a lawsuit filed in 2012 by Epic Outdoor in response to a revision to an existing Rapid City, South Dakota sign ordinance. The revision created new size and spacing requirements as well as preventing outdoor companies from constructing any new digital billboards. Earlier this year, Epic […]
