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Confronting big picture: Billboards hit unprepared suburbs.
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Feb. 25–The tower of suburban terror arose without warning last month along northbound Route 611 in Doylestown Township. The reaction from the citizenry was swift, furious and vaguely apocalyptic. “What’s next,” one riled resident wrote to the local newspaper, “a strip mall with a massage parlor and pornographic book stores?” Doylestown’s first modern billboard had arrived. Adorned in splashes of bright yellow, it looms 35 feet above a scruffy vacant lot, inquiring whether you, dear motorist, are driving a lemon. For now, at least, the billboard is an anomaly in central Bucks County, known for preserving its green space and small-town quaintness. But to land-use experts, it’s one more sign of a trend they’ve begun to spot nationwide: outdoor advertising boldly moving onto suburban byways – often in communities unprepared to regulate it. Longer commutes, clogged-to-a-crawl roads, and the fragmenting of big media are making billboards attractive to advertisers “in places where once it was not worth their while… |
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