Villages-News reports that the Wildwood, Florida city commission has adopted a comprehensive sign ordinance which prohibits new billboards. Existing billboards are permitted and can be repaired. Existing billboards can be relocated under certain conditions such as a roadway expansion. Paid Advertisement
The Reno Gazette Journal reports that the city council voted on Wednesday to extend its moratorium on digital billboards for another year. The council also halted the city’s practice of banking billboard receipts, which let billboard owners demolish an existing sign with a promise from the city that they could build it in […]
The Leaf-Chronicle reports that the Clarksville, TN city council has voted to allow Lamar to relocate billboards from College Street, Wilma Rudolph Boulevard and Madison Street to new locations on Bellamy Lane, Lowes Drive and Tiny Town Road. Clarksville has had a ban on new billboards since 1996. Billboards […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Tampa Bay Times reports that the Pasco County Commissioners have agreed unanimously to let out of home advertising companies convert static billboards to digital billboards. The number of digital signs is capped at 37. For each new digital sign the out of home companies must remove six existing signs […]
By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Congress put 15 newcomers on the House committee that oversees billboard issues. Where do members of Congress form views about land use, signage, job creation, or property rights? Many members of Congress — not all — come from state and local […]
Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli is proposing to amend a 2012 law which limits digital billboards to a defined area of central and southwest Arizona. Those limits were crafted following negotiations between the sign industry and “dark sky” advocates, including astronomers who said they did not want a new source of […]
