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Zoning board approves Lamar plan to convert Paxton Street billboard to LED with conditions
Summary
The Harrisburg Zoning Hearing Board granted Lamar Advertising permission to relocate and convert a Paxton Street billboard to a digital LED face, subject to PennDOT approval, a six-transitions-per-minute limit, and confirmation the structure is outside the 100-year floodplain.
HARRISBURG — The Harrisburg Zoning Hearing Board on Jan. 20 approved application 2595 allowing Lamar Advertising to relocate and convert one face of an existing double‑faced billboard at 833 Paxton Street to an LED, electronically changing display, subject to conditions recommended by the City Planning Commission.
The board’s decision responds to a PennDOT highway‑widening project that will remove multiple static billboard faces along Interstate 83; the planning bureau said the requested relief aims to consolidate signage faces lost to the roadwork.
Jeffrey Knight, director of planning for the City of Harrisburg, described the proposal to replace an existing double‑sided static billboard and to reconfigure the structure into…
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