INC NEWS - proposed billboard changes

[RW Pickle]

During the years I spent in Maine, two great pieces of legislation were
passed. The first, being relative to this topic, the billboard ban went
into effect. Over time, they have been removed from the landscape.

The second, which was one of the best things I have ever seen implemented,
was the "bottle bill". This made ALL containers carry a fee for recycling
(just look on the side of any drink bottle here and you'll see the amounts
and the States involved). Roadside litter of containers disappeared. This
would be something NC could do to improve litter across the State!

RWP
27 Beverly

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> This site answers the question about relative energy consumption of
> electronic and standard billboards (short answer: LEDs save energy in your
> house, but definitely NOT on a billboard.)  It also shows how much more
> the billboard companies make out of them:
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> http://www.sceniccolorado.org/articles/billboard-mythology/
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> And this is the story on the boards in LA:
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96875271
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> Regards, pat
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> From: simplelist at gmail.com
> To: tom-miller1 at nc.rr.com; inc-list at rtpnet.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:06:18 -0500
> CC: whhna_board at googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: INC NEWS - proposed billboard changes
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> Can any pressure on the energy companies be placed to
> gain input or support from them regarding this issue? I would like to know
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> --Skip
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From:
>   Tom
>   Miller
>   To: inc-list at rtpnet.org
>   Cc: whhna_board at googlegroups.com
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>   Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 2:07
>   PM
>   Subject: INC NEWS - proposed billboard
>   changes
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>   I see that the billboard industry
>   is asking the city and county to ease up on the restrictions we worked
> so hard
>   to get in place all through the 1990s.  The JCCPC has delayed their
>   consideration of the requested ordinance change so that groups like INC
> can
>   have their say.
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>   We need to say
>   no!
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>   They are asking for the UDO to be
>   changed to let them to replace existing billboards with electronic ones
> which
>   will allow them to change the advertisement every few seconds.  To
>   accomplish this, the new signs must be lighted somehow like big screen
>   TVs.  Oh joy.  That’s what we need, drivers whizzing along watching
>   for the billboard to change instead of the
>   traffic.
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>   We worked hard for years to
>   eliminate the billboard blight form our streets and highways and now we
> have
>   to fight all over again.
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>   The city spent fortunes in court
>   defending its tough new billboard rules and won at every level.  The
>   billboard industry took the fight to the legislature and tried to get
> laws
>   passed which would not only eliminate a city’s power to regulate
> billboards,
>   but which would also require local governments to pay every time zoning
> or
>   other regulations diminished the value of property.  None of these
>   measures proposed to make the developer pay when changing regulations
> enhanced
>   the value of their properties.  Fortunately, none of these proposals
>   passed.  They did succeed in getting the legislature to end
> amoratization
>   as a way phasing out unwanted uses.
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>   INC fought all these proposals in
>   the General Assembly and organized all neighborhoods statewide to do
> join the
>   struggle.  I guess I’m about the only rat left in the barn who still
>   remembers all this.
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>   It’s bad enough having to fight to
>   stop this unsightly pollution of our streets and highways, but as
> neighborhood
>   representatives, we have to remember that there is often a neighborhood
> on the
>   other side of the billboard that has to contend with the damn thing
> looming
>   over them too.
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>   Durham doesn’t
>   allow billboards (like about a dozen states and the progressive cities
> in
>   NC).  The existing billboards are all nonconforming uses under the
>   UDO.  Usually, when a property is nonconforming, the owner can maintain
>   it like it is, but he can’t enhance it.  The billboard industry’s
>   proposal will allow then to “upgrade” their nonconforming billboards to
> make
>   them newer, brighter, and more obnoxious.  INC needs to fight to stop
>   this and right now.
>
>   Tom
>   Miller
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