[Durham INC] Billboards!

[Tom Miller]

Dear Neighbors all over Durham:

 

The Durham Board of County Commissioners will take up the billboard question
at their meeting Monday evening.  Now is the time to ramp up our e-mails and
let them know that just because the issue was put off a month doesn't mean
we have forgotten about it or softened our belief that anything other than
the current billboard ban is good for Durham.

 

The city council voted unanimously to keep the billboard ban in Durham's
zoning code and, while that's really great for us in the city (I live in
Watts-Hillandale), it isn't the end of the battle.  The Board of County
Commissioners still has to decide whether to allow billboard companies to
move  their bill boards to the parts of the county outside the city limits
and to erect electronic billboards there.  These areas are the gateways to
our city - our city- Durham.  And while it's nice to think that we won't
have electronic billboards on I-85 at Hillandale Road, we don't want them
shining in neighbors' windows anywhere.  We don't want Durham to be the
billboard haven in the middle of a triangle region that doesn't allow them.
This isn't the Durham we are building, the Durham of the future.

 

Monday's proceedings before the Board of Commissioners is a test not only
for county neighborhoods, but for city neighborhoods too.  We got what we
wanted when the city council voted to keep the billboard ban.  Will we stay
home and let our neighbors in the county fend for themselves?  Anybody who
thinks that doesn't know what the InterNeighborhood Council is all about.
So please, send the BOCC another e-mail.  Let them know we are still
watching and that we still care.  Attend the public hearing at 7 p.m.,
Monday night at the Old County Courthouse on Main Street downtown.  I'll be
there.  I'll look for you.

 

You can e-mail all the commissioners at commissioners at durhamcountync.gov.

 

Thanks to all of you!

 

Tom Miller

 

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