Well, what do you know?

Both Phoenixville AND Haverford Township said “no” to BIG BAD Billboards this week.

Good.

Both these cases will go to an appeals process. This guy wants his billboards everywhere. He feels it is his Constitutional right. Never mind the rights of affected residents. Who knew Constitutional rights were so subjective, right?

A commenter on the Phoenixville Patch referred to Article 1 Section 27 of the Pennsylvania State Constitutions which states:

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”

Residents in all counties being affected by these billboard challenges should deluge their state elected officials on this topic. Since the whole shebangy started in Haverford Township a couple of years ago over billboards state level elected representatives have been making appropriate noises regarding protecting communities, only nothing ever seems to go past those supportive murmurs. (Not that I am surprised, politicians are well..politicians.) But this is an election year, so the people could make this count if they make enough of a stink.

Kudos to Phoenixville. And ya know, it is a Classic Town, so people really should enter the DVRPC photo contest….. http://contest.classictowns.org/

But I digress. Back to billboards and here is the latest in the media, and look lively in East Pikeland, the billboard king has apparently filed there too. The Inquirer says that will be heard in East Pikeland on February 29.