Word: antibillboard
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...years have been indefinitely delayed because of a bizarre dispute among the city, the state of Texas and the local billboard industry. The state's highway commission, which had planned the construction, needs to move 123 billboards along various routes to new locations. But that would violate a tough antibillboard law enacted by the city council in 1980. The ordinance prohibits the erection of any new billboards in Houston, which already has a staggering 7,331 of the signs, or approximately four times as many as Atlanta or New Orleans...
...things stand, either the city will have to make some exceptions to its antibillboard law or the state will have to pay millions to the sign owners. So far, neither side has budged, and the traffic jams in Houston just keep getting worse...
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