{"id":884,"date":"2017-10-17T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/10\/17\/trend-rulemaking-billboards-texas-everything-bigger-in-texas-3-key-points-from-supporters\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:06:00","slug":"trend-rulemaking-billboards-texas-everything-bigger-in-texas-3-key-points-from-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-rulemaking-billboards-texas-everything-bigger-in-texas-3-key-points-from-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend. Rulemaking. Billboards. Texas. Everything bigger in Texas? 3 Key Points from Supporters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TXDOT proposes billboards rules that permit billboards to 85 feet high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Sunset bill author, TX\u00a0Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Intent was\u00a0to only grandfather in existing signs above the 42.5 foot limit.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>New billboards would have to comply with current 42.5 foot limit according to Sunset\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Existing signs below 42.5 cannot exceed 42.5 feet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the property right issue at play?<\/strong>\u00a0Existing billboards that were built under 1986 rules that had no height limitations<\/p>\n<p><strong>The opposition:<\/strong>\u00a0Scenic Texas<\/p>\n<p><strong>The complication:\u00a0<\/strong>The 2017 Texas Legislature also attempted to create new billboard regulations to correct for the Texas Supreme Court Ruling in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/Case.aspx?cn=13-0053&amp;coa=cossup\">The State of Texas v. Clear Channel Communication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/transportation\/article\/Anti-billboard-activists-fear-TxDOT-law-will-12259391.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Activists fear Texas law will allow 85-foot-tall billboards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article178523691.html\">Scenic Ft. Worth | Ft. Worth Star Telegram |\u00a0Everything\u2019s bigger in Texas, but 85-foot billboards?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TXDOT proposes billboards rules that permit billboards to 85 feet high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Sunset bill author, TX\u00a0Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Intent was\u00a0to only grandfather in existing signs above the 42.5 foot limit.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>New billboards would have to comply with current 42.5 foot limit according to Sunset\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Existing signs below 42.5 cannot exceed 42.5 feet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the property right issue at play?<\/strong>\u00a0Existing billboards that were built under 1986 rules that had no height limitations<\/p>\n<p><strong>The\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,10,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}