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A rendering of the 90-foot-tall digital sign that had been proposed to overlook Route 295 from the intersection of Pleasant Valley Avenue and Church Street in Mount Laurel. Another had been proposed on Pike Road.
Interstate Outdoor Advertising LP application to Mount Laurel Zoning Board of Adjustment
A rendering of the 90-foot-tall digital sign that had been proposed to overlook Route 295 from the intersection of Pleasant Valley Avenue and Church Street in Mount Laurel. Another had been proposed on Pike Road.
Interstate Outdoor Advertising LP application to Mount Laurel Zoning Board of Adjustment
An outdoor advertising company in late March dropped its proposal to waive Mount Laurel's sign law and build two 90-foot-tall, double-sided digital signs to flash messages to Route 295 drivers.
Interstate Outdoor Advertising LP last year requested that the Township sidestep its prohibition against electronic billboards and permit one at Pleasant Valley Avenue and Church Street and another on Pike Road, about a third of a mile from Hartford Road.
The firm's lawyer, Andrew Bayer of the law firm of Pashman Stein Walter Hayden of Holmdel, wrote to the Zoning Board of Adjustment on March 28 requesting that the Township allow the applications to be withdrawn without prejudice. No reason was given.
70and73.com has not received a response from Bayer, who was asked to comment on the reason for the withdrawal.
Electronic billboards are not a permitted use anywhere in Mount Laurel and Interstate Outdoor sought use variances for both billboards, according to a letter last year to the zoning board from another Interstate Outdoor lawyer, Kelly Carey of Pashman Stein Walder Hayden.
Variances also were sought to overcome zoning regulations that forbid changeable copy, billboards next to Route 295 and unshielded illuminating devices, according to Interstate's application letter.
