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Houston Makes Agreement With Advertiser To Cut 800 Billboards

Posted by: Nate Berg

12 December 2007 - 8:00am

The City of Houston has come to an agreement with Clear Channel Advertising for the company to remove about 800 billboards from the city -- the result of a citywide plan to clean up the city's "visual clutter" that started more than 20 years ago.

"The agreement to remove about two-thirds of Clear Channel's 1,347 small and medium-sized billboards from private property is expected to end two decades of litigation with the city and speed the elimination of signs that were slated to come down in 2013 anyway, company and city officials said."

"City officials estimate there are about 4,000 billboards in Houston and just outside its boundaries. Removing them has been a hotly contested battled since the city adopted an ordinance to regulate them in 1980."

"The agreement with Clear Channel settles a 1987 lawsuit challenging the city's sign ordinance."

"The agreement, which is effective for 20 years, is not intended to stop outdoor advertising, but to make less clutter, said Andy Icken, deputy director of the city's Department of Public Works and Engineering."

"Icken, who helped develop the agreement, said many of the signs to be removed are in residential areas."

Full Story: Clear Channel to pull 800 Houston billboards
Source: The Houston Chronicle, December 11, 2007
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