The signs were created in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation and the White House Freedom 250 initiative.
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House Roads and Transportation Committee Chair State Rep. Jim Pressel did not take a committee vote on the legislation and pulled it from the agenda.
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The legislation goes beyond the billboard-specific prohibition advanced by a Senate panel last week.
Lawmakers said they’d be open to expanding the prohibition to other forms of advertising, too.
The proposed ordinance upholds the city’s prohibition on new billboards inside Interstate 465, but allows outdoor advertising companies to relocate a sign within the same parcel of land.
Councilor Maggie Lewis, chair of the Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee, said councilors heard negative feedback from both constituents and the billboard industry that prompted them to take a second look.
The move is part of a compromise after state lawmakers nearly passed a similar provision into law this year.
A Noblesville ordinance’s language for sign relocation was ambiguous with its usage of “relocate” and “move,” the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed Monday.
Industry veteran Jeff Smulyan is pairing with a low-profile New York hedge fund manager once described as “the most important, least known man in TV.”
One sign will target Illinois’ regulations for being “insane” and one uses the first three letters in the word “Illinois” to claim that the state’s tax system is “ill.”
A judgment in favor a sign company that converted a large billboard in Lawrence to a digital display was reversed on appeal Friday.
The sign installed along U.S. 31 near 146th Street in Carmel says “Westfield” on both the north and south sides of the sign, even though drivers heading south are traveling into Carmel.
