News Release Senator for the 20th District TOM GEORGE State Capitol / Lansing, Michigan 48913 PH (517) 373.0793 / FAX (517) 373.5607 www.senate.michigan.gov/gop/senator/george/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 3, 2003 Contact: Sherry Sofia (517) 373-0793 George Amendment Bans FIA Billboards Reduces Wasteful Spending Senator Tom George successfully inserted an amendment today into…
Published in the Lansing State Journal February 6, 2003 Michigan has much to do in reducing signage along roads Time is precious in our hectic lives. Often, we find the most precious elements yield to more pressing concerns. If a billboard were placed in the oldest section of Michigan State University’s…
Dec. 6, 2002 BY FRED GRAY Petoskey News-Review Staff Writer KINCHELOE — While driving along I-75 three years ago, retired prison librarian Jean Karrer of Kincheloe noticed there was something unusual about the dozen or so billboards along both sides of I-75 just north of Rudyard in the snowswept eastern…
On November 28, 2001, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Edward M. Thomas upheld Livonia’s ban on billboards. The Livonia ordinance defined “Billboard” as: “A ground sign advertising a product, event, person, business, or subject not related to the premises on which the sign is located. Off-premise directional signs as permitted in this ordinance…
Issues: Whether sections of city’s zoning ordinance regarding signs were valid under the Michigan City and Village Zoning Act (CVZA); Home Rule Cities Act (HCRA) §§ 41(c) and (f); Exclusionary zoning Court: Michigan Supreme Court Case Name: Adams Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. City of Holland e-Journal Number: 10112 Judge(s): Kelly, Corrigan, Cavanagh, Taylor, Young, Jr.,…
An East Lansing ordinance banning rooftop billboards does not qualify as a taking and the city does not owe compensation to the affected business, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The long-running case, Adams Outdoor Advertising v. City of East Lansing (docket No. 113674), has already appeared before the high court…
From Environmental Policy Project, Georgetown University Law Center On Wednesday, July 26, 2000, the Michigan Supreme Court issued a decision in Adams Outdoor Advertising v. City of East Lansing, unanimously reversing a court of appeals ruling that a municipal ordinance requiring the removal of billboards effected a regulatory taking. The City…
