By Jennifer Sloane, Esq. As an attorney for the OOH industry, I love to see comments by local governmental officials such as those pointed out in the article New Digital Signs Headed For San Jose, CA. In that article, the city councilperson stated, in summary, that they wanted to allow […]
A Tulsa World story about a digital billboard on native american land caught insider’s eye. Some residents are complaining about a 20′ by 60′ Gordon Outdoor digital billboard erected on land owned by the Muscogee Creek Indian Nation. The article correctly points out that the city can do nothing because Native […]
New York State’s congressional delegation is keeping pressure on Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) to remove rogue signs from the highway right of way or face loss of federal funds. On February 1, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) told New York State’s DOT that it would withhold $14 million in federal […]
Cody J. Riebe, Public Relations & Content Specialist at BillboardsIn Marijuana is a big business. It is now recreationally legal in nine states and medicinally in thirty. It’s estimated that it will be a $21 billion industry by 2021. This is good news for the out-of-home industry. Here at BillboardsIn, […]
KSLA reports that Choice Dynamic Media has filed a petition against Lubbock, TX over a subjective sign code. In April, Choice applied for 5 billboards in Lubbock and was turned down because: adding a billboard may increase traffic permitting a billboard would open the floodgates to undesirable businesses like night […]
MRT reports the Odessa, Texas planning and zoning commission approved a request by John Gannon, Inc. to install a static billboard but rejected a request for a digital billboard at West County Road 100 and FM 1788. The Daily Freeman reports that Ulster, New York is considering a digital sign […]
When a sign code permits you to maintain non-performing signs, you’re allowed to maintain non-performing signs. That’s the takeaway from Lamar versus the city of Alliance, Ohio. Here are the facts. In January 2016, Lamar acquired 18 non-conforming signs in Alliance, Ohio and began performing maintenance on the signs. The […]
On Tuesday (June 26), the California Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing is scheduled to consider a proposal to authorize a pilot project to allow digital billboards with advertising on California highways. The proposal (AB-1405) calls for 25 digital billboards on highway right of way. If approved by the California […]
Insider is surprised how many small communities have sign codes which are not compliant with Reed V Gilbert. The biggest offense is a sign code with multiple categories which requires a sign inspector to read a sign to decide what sort of rules apply. Insider knows of one Indiana town […]
The Brainerd Dispatch reports that the Pequot Lakes, Minnesota planning commission and city council have approved an ordinance to the zoning code to permit signs along the new highway 371. You can read the proposed amendment here. The code includes the following: The approval of offsite digital and static billboards […]
