Texas outdoor advertising industry erected 8,000+ illegal billboards

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Driving on Texas’ roadways can be boring and interesting at the same time, considering that two out of every five billboards you see are more than just an eyesore — they’re illegal.

The Texas Department of Transportation recently disclosed that 8,000 billboards across the state violate the Department’s maximum height rule of 42.5 feet. In the 33 years since the rule was established, thousands of excessively tall billboards have been erected across Texas in knowing violation of the rule, as billboard owners are required in the permitting process to verify that they will not exceed the limit.

There was an effort to clarify the restriction through a statute that went into effect in March 2017, yet the pattern of violation continued as multiple billboards above the height restriction have been raised since that time.

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