By Caitlin McGlade and Jackee Coe | The Republic | azcentral.com
From her back patio, Paulette Hack can hear the rush of traffic and see the Bell Road exit sign mounted above Loop 101 drivers. She can see signs for the Cracker Barrel and the Hampton Inn, telephone poles and rows of street lights.
But she draws the line at two proposed billboards.
“How ghetto could that be, to put signs up like that?” Hack said.
Hack is among many Peoria and Glendale residents living as far north as Arrowhead Ranch who are incensed by Becker Boards’ proposal to plant two 85-foot billboards on the northwestern corner of Loop 101 and Bell Road in Glendale. They’ve circulated petitions, their own information packages and e-mailed council members, bolstered by a recent Peoria City Council vote objecting to the boards that the Peoria mayor termed “85 feet of ugly.”
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