Asheville Citizen-Times reports:
Digital billboards that flash multiple messages at motorists could be facing new city restrictions — including an outright ban.
Whether to restrict or even abolish digital billboards that some residents call ugly and dangerous will be the topic of a Jan. 4 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. A recommendation from that volunteer board could face a final decision with a City Council vote in March.
Those wanting a ban on the signs point to a Merrimon Avenue billboard as an example of what’s gone wrong. ...Read the full article
Digital billboards that flash multiple messages at motorists could be facing new city restrictions — including an outright ban.
Whether to restrict or even abolish digital billboards that some residents call ugly and dangerous will be the topic of a Jan. 4 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. A recommendation from that volunteer board could face a final decision with a City Council vote in March.
Those wanting a ban on the signs point to a Merrimon Avenue billboard as an example of what’s gone wrong. ...Read the full article
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Not only are these billboards very distracting and dangerous to drivers, they ruin the pristine natural skyline and wholesome beauty of our city. It is bad enough we have billboards at all. In some states and in some cities they are illegal. Let us preserve what we have left of our historic town. Let only the mountains move not any signs!
By Jenna
12/09/2011
The only reason I like them is because they were still showing Mark Cates ads two days after he lost the election.
Yay expensive, blinding, inadvertent comedy!
Other than that, they need to go...
By Barry Summers
12/09/2011