What’s important? The environment or the billboards. Politically, the environment wins even if a few self concerned advertising executives and their clients cry over the issue. Some advertisers on North Carolina are worried because trees overshadow the advertising hoardings. They want some amendments in the state regulation.
In presentations to committees of the General Assembly and the State Board of Transportation, the North Carolina Outdoor Advertising Association asked that the clearing zone be extended from 250 feet of roadside to 500 feet. It also wants reconsideration of rules that bar cutting of some larger trees and that set a high price for the tree clearing.
A similar case a decade ago took five years to complete and this time also it does not seem an easy task. Environmentalists are totally up against any more tree cutting. They think billboard companies are already getting visual access to highways.
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