Say No to the NC Billboard Bill

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This is alert is from our friends at the North Carolina Conservation Network, Scenic NC and the Central Piedmont Sierra Club. Thanks for your attention!

If the Billboard Bill (Senate Bill 183/House Bill 309), passes the General Assembly, it would dramatically expand the area along public roadsides where trees can be cleared in front of billboards. Even worse, this legislation would take away the right of local communities to curb the spread of billboards by prohibiting enforcement of local tree ordinances in front of billboards along interstates and federally assisted highways.

This legislation would also require local taxpayers to buy out billboards if they want them to be removed, in turn costing North Carolina taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars per billboard, making these distracting structures all but permanent.

Please contact your legislators here and urge them to oppose the Bad Billboard Bill (Senate Bill 183/House Bill 309).

Scot has been with Dogwood Alliance since 2000 and has served as a campaign organizer, field director, campaign director and is currently the communications director. In his role he is in charge of story telling, creative, media relations, and PR. He has a dual BA from Drew University in Psychology and Philosophy and has worked previously with the Fund for Public Interest and in music PR for artists such as Buddy Guy and Ani DiFranco.

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