Marlboro Planning Board Approves Rt. 9 Billboards
The board considered the proposals, despite its recent billboard ordinance regarding Rt. 9 and Rt. 79, because they were submitted prior to the new ordinance.
File Photo: Two billboard proposals that have spent months on the Marlboro Planning Board agenda were approved at the June 6 meeting.
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Two billboard proposals that have spent months on the Marlboro Planning Board agenda were approved at the June 6 meeting.
Proposals came from CBS Outdoor Media, for two billboards on Rt. 9. The board considered the proposals, despite its recent billboard ordinance regarding Rt. 9 and Rt. 79, because they were submitted prior to the new ordinance.
The double-faced billboards will stand on Rt. 9 North near Rt. 520 and on Rt. 9 South near CVS at Texas Road, according to the News Transcript. The boards will be lit, a luxury the developer will take up with Jersey Central Power and Light.
Marlboro Mann
4:52 pm on Friday, June 15, 2012
Excellent piece of urban planning. The only thing missing is a truck stop along route 9, hotels with short stay rates along the Marlboro section of the Route 9 corridor, and a fireworks store similar to South of the Border. We already have a fortune teller next to Damon's Grill so the Camdenization of the township has officially begun. We better pack our bags and move to the center of town so we can be closer to the rich people who govern our fair city.
cynicinmarlboro
7:32 am on Saturday, June 16, 2012
So let me get this straight. Reject a billboard at Route 79 and Ryan Road because of driver distraction at a "busy intersection" but allow 2 more on the busiest highway going through town. Perhaps because the way the lights do not allow traffic to move anyway they thought it would be safer. Yep - makes sense to me. Just gives more fodder for the lawsuit on the rejected billboard.
Claudine Scozzari
10:01 am on Saturday, June 16, 2012
Because of the "roadway category", the planned placements of the billboards are being placed in designated areas allowable by the DOT, not much unlike the placement of billboards along the NJ Turnpike, since Rt. 9 is in the same "roadway category".
It's like making hazelnut coffee and expresso in the same coffee pot.
Marlboro Mann
1:39 pm on Saturday, June 16, 2012
Doesnt make me feel any better. They are still unsightly and ugly.
Claudine Scozzari
9:56 am on Sunday, June 17, 2012
Marlboro Mann -
You are missing the point.
You can.
People are going to do what you don't want them to do because they can. It's human nature.
The problem arises when the Marlboro Planning Board thinks they can make decisions regarding matters they have no control over. Legal battles create more of a mess because according to the hefty case law on the books, it is a cut and dry issue.
Hence, the arrival of billboards in each direction on any highway you can install.
George F
9:09 pm on Saturday, June 16, 2012
I can't believe they let any billboards in residential communities. Driving on rt 79, and seeing billboards as you pass thru Marlboro is just plan trashy. I half expect to see a sign for a strip club! ...and when I see the "Blush" billboard, I keep thinking it's a strip club!!! ....way to ruin the neighborhood.
JosephGhabourLaw
10:29 am on Monday, June 18, 2012
A 1994 Wisconsin DOT study found that: “It is obvious that the variable message sign has had an effect on traffic, most notably in the increase of the side swipe crash rate.” Legal or not, these electronic billboards may pose a safety hazard.
Marlboro Mann
11:24 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Our municipal government has let us down. It seems if there is a dollar to be made, our elected officials jump at it. But once again you'll never see any of this constructed close to where they live.
Concerned One
8:15 am on Friday, July 27, 2012
There is nothing the Planning Board could have done on Rt. 9 - it is legislation that they HAD to be approved. The Board can only control how far apart they can go, and they changed the legislation to make it a law that they have to be further apart.