Battling over the Billboards

[Jdog]

Local attorney continues fight with billboard companies
Jacksonville Business Journal by Christian Conte, Reporter
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 9:50am EDT
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In the mid-1980s Jacksonville looked vastly different than it does today, with billboards dotting some of the city’s most scenic roadways.  Some saw the billboards strictly as an avenue of advertising, but others considered them a form of visual pollution.  More than half of the 2,200 billboards in Jacksonville in 1987 have been removed thanks to city regulations and settlement agreements that local Attorney Bill Brinton helped draft and defend.

Some of the roadways that are now billboard-free include Bay Street and Forsyth streets downtown, Riverside Avenue and Herschel Street in the Riverside area and St. Johns Avenue in the Avondale area. Other roads are almost billboard-free like Airport Road and Roosevelt Boulevard, which made way for landscaping projects.

Not everyone, including the general counsel for the city of Jacksonville, agree with Brinton’s interpretation of the regulations. But his efforts to defend them continue. He most recently filed suit against one of the billboard companies and the city.

For more on Brinton’s commitment to the issue over the years and the latest on the battle over billboards see tomorrow’s Jacksonville Business Journal.


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[Jdog]

I wasn't here to see some of this...were there really a lot of billboards in Avondale?  On Bay Street?  Forsyth?