Monday, March 25, 2013
A Boston judge ordered one company to remove signs from a building on Bowdoin Street because it didn't have the appropriate permit, and the city's Zoning Board recently banned new boards in certain neighborhoods.
A Boston judge last week ordered a local billboard company to remove two signs hanging on a Bowdoin Street building. According to a Boston Herald report, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation had filed a lawsuit in February against Sponsor Co., seeking to force the company to remove two 25-by-40-foot signs facing Cambridge Street and to pay a $1,000-a-day fine since Nov. 30, when the company was warned that the signs were illegal because the company lacked the required permits. In her decision, the Suffolk Superior Court judge wrote that, “Erecting or maintaining outdoor advertising in violation of any provision of [state law] is considered a nuisance” and that violating the law “adversely affects the public,” the Herald reported…
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The Zoning Commission will consider the BRA's proposal at a meeting on Dec. 12.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority is looking to ban new billboards, signboards and other outdoor ads from Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Kenmore Square and Boston’s financial district, the Boston Herald reported on Tuesday. The proposal to ban new signs will come before the Boston Zoning Commission at a public hearing scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday at City Hall. Billboards and signs already placed would be exempt from the new zoning regulations, if the changes are approved. Such signs are already banned from about 90 percent of the city, according to the Herald article. The new regulations would apply to signs that advertise or announce a business, service or event offered at a site other than the one where the sign is located. Also on the Zoning…
Friday, June 8, 2012
More billboards may be coming to Boston, but their not allowed in Back Bay.
The state is revising the regulations would pave the way for more billboards -- both the traditional kinds as well as the flashy electronic ones – but Back Bay residents don’t have to worry. “There are no billboards withing the boundaries of the Back Bay Architectural District,” said William Young, chairman of the city’s Back Bay Architectural Committee. Billboards are considered an off-premise sign, meaning they advertise goods or services outside the neighborhood, and are not allowed under Back Bay zoning. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be popping up in other parts of the city. Observers say digital billboards are the way the outdoor advertising industry is going. Of course, how you feel about billboards depends on who you are — and …
