By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/East Valley Tribune
Pulling apart what was a carefully crafted deal, a House panel voted Tuesday night to open up a much larger area of the state to electronic billboards.
Current law limits these signs — and the light pollution they cause — to a corridor that stretches from Phoenix west along I-10 and I-8 to the California border. The deal hammered out in 2012 made the rest of the state off limits in an effort to protect Arizona’s astronomy industry.
HB 2507 would allow the signs through most of Mohave and La Paz counties, up to the Utah border.
