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. Today Greg shares some tips for […]
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Sign Law Fix Passes Tennessee House but stalls in Senate.
March 20 6:14am Update. Insider has learned that the last night the Tennessee Senate recessed without voting on legislation to fix Tennessee’s sign law. The bipartisan senate bill was crowded out by last minute efforts to pass a budget and recess amid coronavirus concerns. The Senate will consider the bill […]
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 […]
Greg Redeker’s 6 Tips for Preparing and Submitting Permit Applications
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. Last week he gave 3 tips […]
TN Sign Law Rewrite Advances in House and Senate
The Tennessee Senate Transportation Safety Committee and House Transportation Committee approved legislation, including out of home industry amendments, to fix Tennessee’s sign law. Senate Bill 2188 and HB 2255 rewrite the state’s sign law by redefining the term “off-premises device” as “a billboard receiving compensation from any message”. The change […]
DC Wins Lawsuit Against Digi Outdoor Successor
On Monday, Washington DC won a lawsuit against Lumen Eight, the successor company to Don MacCord’s Digi Outdoor Media. Digi Outdoor Media installed 43 digital billboards at 17 locations in Wash DC. The company tried to circumvent Wash DC’s ban on digital billboards by installing the signs inside windows of […]
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 […]
Tennessee House Subcommittee Approves Sign Legislation
The Tennessee House Transportation Subcommittee on Infrastructure passed two bills to amend the State’s sign regulations. Both bills are designed to fix Tennessee’s sign regulations which were overturned by the Thomas v Bright court challenge. HB 1071 is legislation prepared by various stakeholders including the out of home advertising industry. HB […]
How Tennessee Cities are Responding to Thomas v Bright
Tomorrow the Chattanooga city council will vote on an ordinance instituting a 180 day moratorium on accepting and processing permits for new outdoor advertising signs or permits for the conversion of static billboards to digital billboards. The moratorium says that the city’s sign ordinance is modeled in part on the […]
Planners Use Billboards to Keep Community Clean
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Tahoe Fund, and the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority bought digital billboard space to fight litter. One billboard message displays the hashtag #NoSledLeftBehind (to encourage locals and visitors to keep trails clean). Another billboard promotes picking up after dogs (“Be #1 at picking up #2). “When […]