Preserving, Protecting, and Enhancing Michigan's Scenic Resources
Scenic Michigan is a broad coalition of Michiganders from all walks of life who care passionately about protecting Michigan’s spectacular beauty. Since 1996, Scenic Michigan has fought to eliminate blight, stem Michigan’s excessive proliferation of roadway billboards, reduce light pollution, and protect the state’s most scenic and beautiful vistas. Scenic Michigan is an affiliate of Scenic America, a national organization sharing our goals.
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Michigan Sign Regulation Guidebook:
The book for Local Planning and Regulation of Signs
Our recently updated Michigan Sign Guidebook (2021) provides essential guidance about the local planning and regulation of business and advertising signs. This valuable tool covers a wide range of issues associated with local sign regulation with a major focus on legal issues and how communities can develop sign ordinances that minimize legal risks; including information on how to regulate different sign types and approaches to sign regulation that preserve “content neutrality,” a critical issue under federal First Amendment law.
By purchasing our Sign Regulation Guidebook you can learn how to better utilize content-neutral sign regulations to enhance the scenic quality of your community, while addressing critical legal issues that ensure your communities sign ordinances meet the practical functional purposes for which signs are created, all while enhancing the scenic quality of a community.
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Here's a great example of why Scenic Michigan advocates for thoughtful sign control! Bon Appétit Magazine recently published an article about dining in southwestern Michigan (one of our most beautiful regions!) and the first sentence of the article pulls the entire focus of the story to one thing: billboards!…
On February 16th we officially moved our office to Lansing, in with our friends from the Michigan Environmental Council. We appreciate our old host at the NEW Center in Ann Arbor for letting us call their facility home for years. We appreciate the work that they put in providing non-profit…
Written by Connor Spencer Inclement weather can lead to power outages seemingly during any season, re-sparking the debate of undergrounding electrical wires and other utilities to reduce what seems to be an increasing recurrence of outages. Across Michigan, overhead power lines are a large and distracting remainder from a time…