BSquare Bulletin and Inside Indiana Business report that the Bloomington planning commission has shelved for the time being a proposal to amortize billboards in Bloomington. The decision to postpone a decision was due to concern over the financial cost of having to pay just compensation. Lamar’s attorney presented a Briefing […]
We received some reader comments on our Amortization in Bloomington Indiana post. An east coast out of home exec says you should enlist clients to help fight amortization I always use the term “slow motion confiscation” and the metaphor, imagine you own a ten story building and suddenly a town […]
The city of Bloomington, Indiana planning commission is entertaining a proposal to amortize up to 47 billboards by 2031. When the proposal was discussed at a planning meeting and one of the planning commissioners asked why no billboard companies were present the Bloomington city attorney said none of the billboard […]
On April 13, 2022 Cathedral City, California passed a new billboard ordinance which: forbids new billboards prevents the conversion of static to digital billboards makes all existing billboards legal non-conforming uses restricts cannabis ads on billboards within 1,000 feet of day care centers, schools, parks and the city library. The […]
During the last week, Billboard Insider published a couple articles on related Constitutional clauses. First, Insider reminded us in What the Senate Said About Amortization while cautioning that the regulatory concept had actually been enacted into an ordinance by Wenatchee, Washington last year. Wenatchee and other governmental entities utilize the amortization […]
Amortization – the ability of a state or municipality to require a billboard company to take down a billboard after a fixed period of time without compensation – rears its ugly head from time to time. Wenatchee, Washington passed an amortization law last year. Amortization was a hotly debated topic […]
Thirty years ago, the US Senate defeated anti-billboard legislation 60–39. Robert Campbell, currently a Lamar Regional Manager based in Mobile, AL, was in Washington, DC, when that historic vote occurred. Billboard Insider asked Campbell to tell us what happened. We thought of Robert because he’s from Alabama, home of Senator […]
Amortization refers to the practice of forcing a billboard company to remove a billboard after an arbitrary period of time without compensation for the loss. Amortization has reared its ugly head in Wenatchee, Washington. In November the city of Wenatchee sent a letter to the city’s out of home companies […]
By Myron Laible OAAA Vice President State, Local, and Regulatory Affairs I was chatting with 30-year billboard veteran Larry Alder about local regulatory battles in Idaho . . . Larry mentioned that his longtime boss Scott Butterfield would retire soon (Scott’s last day is January 5, 2018). Butterfield was instrumental, […]
