[Peace-discuss] Billboards and Free Speech

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

> Billboards and Free Speech: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zpXLKAyESM&mode=related&search=
>
> Urbana reconsidering last year's ordinance on billboards
> By Mike Monson
>
> Monday September 24, 2007
>
> URBANA – A lawsuit filed against the city of Urbana by Adams Outdoor 
> Advertising is prompting city officials to propose revising an 
> ordinance that is barely a year old.
>
> Adams owns all 32 billboard structures, with 64 billboard faces, in 
> the city of Urbana. The company filed suit in Champaign County Circuit 
> Court this past November, asking for relief from the city's new 
> billboard ordinance, which was approved by the city council in June 
> 2006.
>
> In the suit, Adams objected to the fact that to get a new billboard 
> requires the company to get a special use permit approved by the city 
> council and reviewed by the plan commission. Adams contended that 
> requiring a special use permit was an abridgment on its First 
> Amendment rights to free speech and failed to include basic due 
> process protections.
>

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