Monday, March 25, 2013
A Boston judge ordered one company to remove signs from a building on Bowdoin Street because it didn't have the appropriate permit, and the city's Zoning Board recently banned new boards in certain neighborhoods.
A Boston judge this week ordered a local billboard company to remove two signs hanging on a Bowdoin Street building. According to a Boston Herald report, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation had filed a lawsuit in February against Sponsor Co., seeking to force the company to remove two 25-by-40-foot signs facing Cambridge Street and to pay a $1,000-a-day fine since Nov. 30, when the company was warned that the signs were illegal because the company lacked the required permits. In her decision, the Suffolk Superior Court judge wrote that, “Erecting or maintaining outdoor advertising in violation of any provision of [state law] is considered a nuisance” and that violating the law “adversely affects the public,” the Herald reported…
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The Zoning Commission will consider the BRA's proposal at a meeting on Dec. 12.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority is looking to ban new billboards, signboards and other outdoor ads from Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Kenmore Square and Boston’s financial district, the Boston Herald reported on Tuesday. The proposal to ban new signs will come before the Boston Zoning Commission at a public hearing scheduled for 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at City Hall. Billboards and signs already placed would be exempt from the new zoning regulations, if the changes are approved. Such signs are already banned from about 90 percent of the city, according to the Herald article. The new regulations would apply to signs that advertise or announce a business, service or event offered at a site other than the one where the sign is located. Also …
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
The state is revising its rules on billboards, paving the way for more electronic ones. The MBTA hopes to convert 18 of its billboards to the electronic format.
If you like the digital billboards in place in a few spots around Boston, you'll love new regulations being mulled that would pave the way for more of them. The state is revising the regulations that govern all types of billboards—both the traditional kinds as well as the flashy electronic ones. Observers say digital billboards are the way the outdoor advertising industry is going. Of course, how you feel about billboards depends on who you are—and where the billboard happens to be. A wide range of opinions was on display Tuesday at a public hearing as ad execs, nonprofit marketers and a handful of concerned citizens held forth. The hearing was in front of the Department of Transportation officials responsible for regulating outdoor …
mplo
5:52 pm on Thursday, May 9, 2013
I personally think that large outdoor signs and billboards, especially in urban areas where there are a lot of tall buildings, etc., can be a real eyesore, but that's my opinion. more ›