Insider likes to know what the opposition is up to. On May 23, 2016 Scenic America adopted a three year strategic plan which has been posted on the Scenic America website. Insider notes four things about the plan: Scenic America has a very small staff. The executive director position is part-time […]
Insider has been tracking proposed Arizona legislation sponsored by Senator Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City. The Arizona State Senate agreed this week to allow digital billboards in northwest Arizona. The bill passed, SB 1114, allows for up to 35 signs and includes the following guidelines: Use all commercially reasonable efforts to […]
Sign cases at the US Supreme Court aren’t common. But in 2015, a unanimous Supreme Court struck down a local ordinance because it treated temporary church signs differently than others. This free speech case (Reed vs. Town of Gilbert, AZ) prompts an important question: if the Town of Gilbert’s code […]
When Insider last reported on this case, Scenic America had lost its attempt to overturn federal guidance on digital billboards on appeal and then asked the US Supreme Court to hear the case. Last week, the Supreme Court asked the government and the billboard industry – the defendants — to […]
Intell reports that Quakertown, PA will approve a 20 by 40 monument/digital billboard at State Route 309 and 663 in Quakertown. The board will be constructed by Catalyst Outdoor. It will have a brick or stone base topped by three circular digital signs. Catalyst will landscape the site. The city […]
As a follow up to our post in December, The Grand Junction, Colorado city council this week, approved new regulations for signs in the city related to content neutrality. Outdoor Advertising signs were not included under this ordinance but stay under the existing regulations. Proposed ordinance issues related to electronic […]
As a follow up to our story yesterday Elaine Chao was confirmed on Tuesday as Transportation secretary. The confirmation passed in the Senate on a 93-6 vote. Chao, who was born in Taiwan and came to the U.S. with her parents when she was 8, will face several urgent action items […]
Searching for new revenue, some states have contemplated commercial advertising on official traffic signs on the public right of way. US Senator Jerry Moran, R-KS, asked the next Secretary of Transportation about ads-on-the-road. Insider is providing the senator’s question and the reply from Elaine Chao, nominated by President Trump as Secretary […]
Last week Pasco County, Florida approved a digital sign code requiring a billboard to take down 6 faces for every new digital face they install. The sign code restricts digital flips to 15 seconds. Do you realize what a bad deal this is? For every 6 static faces which are […]
Beacon Hills Times reports that a Massachusetts appeals court has prohibited outdoor signage at 9 Bowdoin St in Boston. Defendants Hat 9 Bowdoin Realty and Sponsor Co, LLC had a appealed a 2015 ruling by Suffolk Superior court ordering the two billboards which were attached to the outside of the […]
