New York City places new restrictions on outdoor signs.
"Enormous billboards...erase the line between commercial speech and visual assault...Last week, the City Planning Commission amended the zoning code to limit the size of billboards in manufacturing districts...it is interesting that as the city tries to take down some signs outdoors, it insists on putting up new ones indoors."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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