“Our home property values will be negatively affected … allow common sense and logic to guide you that these billboards are a public safety hazard and inappropriate,” Donato said. Sandi Donato, a party to the case, said she and other residents live in close proximity to proposed sites on West Chester Pike. He noted to a recent calamity in which a seven-story billboard collapsed onto the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in New York.Īnd these gigantic signs are inherently intended to create driver distraction, Byrne said, undesirable in busy, congested areas witnesses have identified as already taxing for motorists.īyrne cited the Pennsylvania Constitution, affording everyone the right to “clean air, pure water, preservation of natural, scenic, historic and aesthetic values of the environment.” He averred that Haverford’s billboard exclusion is justified based on public health, safety and welfare concerns. Haverford allows alternate outdoor advertising forms, such as ads on bus shelter, shopping cart, and stadiums, Byrne said.
Township attorney Jim Byrne maintained that BIG’s validity challenge concerned the township’s alleged prohibition on outdoor advertising, with billboards comprising one form. I hope you’ll honor your obligation and make a real decision … You have to decide whether you’re going to be a judge or … ship it along to the courts.” “I don’t have a lot of hope you’re going to be able to do the right thing,” Kaplin said.
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