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Article: Beach reconsiders billboard debate.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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VIRGINIA BEACH has tried mightily the past 20 years to improve the appearance of the city, planting crape myrtles along thoroughfares, buying hundreds of acres for parks and eliminating billboards.
Its billboard ordinance, one of the most restrictive in the state, allows existing signs to be maintained but prohibits owners from altering, enlarging or replacing them.
Adams Outdoor Advertising, however, has proposed a variance to the zoning law, with some public service benefits to the city, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, that would reopen a controversy many hoped had been closed for good.
The company wants to ...