[Durham INC] Fwd: Trading Trees for Billboards?

[Josie McNeil]

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From: NC Sierra Club <north.carolina.chapter at sierraclub.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:00 AM
Subject: Trading Trees for Billboards?
To: riojosie at gmail.com


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Dear  Sierran ,

  *
Help Us Protect Natural Beauty!*
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=49kdd8YnuvGazp8vBztVmA..>
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*Here they go again! *Legislation is making its way through the NC General
Assembly that would be a huge giveaway to billboard companies at the expense
of your community.

*Please, contact your representative TODAY, and urge them to vote NO on SB
183 -- the Bill Board
Bill!*<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=u12cvlKnbaj5pvcc4TAhvg..>

Here is what SB 183 does:

   - Allows potentially thousands of existing billboards to convert to
   electronic billboards every 1,500 feet in commercial and industrial areas on
   interstates and federal primary highways -- regardless of city and county
   rules that may prohibit such signs.
   - Dramatically expands the area where trees can be clear cut in the
   public right of way in order to increase the billboard companies' profits.
   - Prohibit local tree protection regulations from being enforced in front
   of billboards along major corridors.
   - Allows billboards that are being phased out ("non-conforming signs") to
   instead convert to electronic signs -- even over local objections.

*Please contact your State Senator today -- tell them to vote NO the
Billboard Bill!<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=4ODxap7fN4yucqbR7689Ug..>
*

SB 183 takes away the right of local communities to control their
appearance, making billboard companies more powerful than your mayor or town
council.   It will result in massive tree cutting on public roads to allow
for an unending string of electronic billboards at 1500 foot intervals.

As the Raleigh N&O recently noted, SB 183 appears to be aimed squarely at
removing rules that protect natural beauty.

*Your help is needed to protect our communities by stopping the Billboard
Bill from passing through the legislature!
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=3XhI-Iw2CW1zyy5W_n12uA..>*

Thanks for all you do!

Molly Diggins
Sierra Club North Carolina

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