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A RESOLUTION BY THE INTERNEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF DURHAM ON Local Government and Billboards and Roadside Vegetation and Billboards:
WHEREAS the citizens of every North Carolina city and county are best positioned to determine what is best for their own welfare, how their communities should appear, and how the use of land should be regulated; and
WHEREAS every city and county has each to its own satisfaction through the power long granted it by the laws of this state regulated the erection and display of on and off-premises signs; and
WHEREAS the bounty of North Carolina's natural beauty is the heritage and birthright of every citizen and its proper stewardship is the responsibility of the people; and
WHEREAS the outdoor advertising industry may ask the North Carolina General Assembly to enact laws to restrict the power of cities and counties to determine for themselves which land use and zoning regulations best protect the welfare of local citizens and to take away from local communities the powers of self-government they have long enjoyed; and
WHEREAS the same industry may ask the General Assembly to enact laws to permit the cutting and removal of vegetation along state highways and byways to the detriment of the natural beauty of the state so that billboards should be seen where trees once stood;
IT IS THEREFORE RESOLVED by the neighborhoods of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham through their delegates duly assembled that it shall be the position of the council that the General Assembly should enact no law restricting or diminishing the right or power of local governments to control land use through zoning and other ordinances including the power to control and even ban billboards and other signs.
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED by the neighborhoods of the InterNeighborhood Council that its officers and such other persons as the president may appoint shall do every needful thing consistent with this resolution and the bylaws of the council to protect the prerogatives of local government to regulate land use including signs from enactments which would reduce or diminish them.
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED by the neighborhoods of the InterNeighborhood Council that it shall be the position of the council that the General Assembly should enact no law permitting the removal of trees or other vegetation long the highways and byways of the state to increase the visibility of any advertising sign or display.
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED by the neighborhoods of the InterNeighborhood Council that its officers and such other persons as the president may appoint shall do every needful thing consistent with this resolution and the bylaws of the council to protect the natural beauty of the state from destruction in favor of signs and other advertising.
This 22d day of February, 2011
The InterNeighborhood Council of Durham by Tom Miller, President
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