Basil: Four new billboards can be built in city limits

Four additional advertising billboards could now be built in the city
limits in the future.  City Attorney Danny Basil told the City Council
Monday night about a ruling handed down recently in an appeal filed by
individuals who applied to build 4 new billboards in Glasgow.  The city
has an ordinance that caps the total billboard in the city to 25.  We have
25 now, but that includes 4 on the Cumberland Parkway which is also in the
city limits.  In the appeal a judge ruled that since the State governs all
billboards on parkways,  the city couldn’t count those in their total, so
4 more billboards could be built and comply with the ordinance.  In
summary Basil told the council “we now have a situation where there’s four
pending applications for these four new billboards and there’s a lot of
people who would like to have them.  But, I think because they were active
applications and filed first they will probably be the ones who get those
four.”