| 1 | Representative(s) Mayfield offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove lines 40 through 65, and insert: |
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| 6 | screen such sign from view. For the State Highway System and |
| 7 | expressways, the view zone shall consist of 500 linear feet |
| 8 | within the first 1,000 feet as measured along the edge of the |
| 9 | pavement in the direction of approaching traffic from a point on |
| 10 | the edge of the pavement perpendicular to the edge of the sign |
| 11 | facing nearest the highway. For the State Highway System and |
| 12 | expressways, the view zone shall be a continuous 500 linear feet |
| 13 | unless interrupted by existing, naturally occurring vegetation. |
| 14 | The department and the sign owner may enter into an agreement |
| 15 | identifying the specific location of the view zone for each sign |
| 16 | facing. In the absence of such agreement, the view zone shall be |
| 17 | defined as the first continuous 500 linear feet from the sign. |
| 18 | Any governmental entity or other party violating this provision |
| 19 | shall pay to the sign owner a penalty equal to the lesser of the |
| 20 | revenue from the sign lost during the time of the screening or |
| 21 | the fair market value of the sign. |
| 22 | Section 2. Section 479.25, Florida Statutes, is amended to |
| 23 | read: |
| 24 | 479.25 Application of chapter.--The owner of a lawfully |
| 25 | erected sign that is governed by and conforms to state and |
| 26 | federal requirements for land use, size, height, and spacing may |
| 27 | increase the height above ground level of such sign This chapter |
| 28 | does not prevent a governmental entity from entering into an |
| 29 | agreement allowing the height above ground level of a lawfully |
| 30 | erected sign to be increased at its permitted location if a |
| 31 | noise-attenuation barrier, visibility screen, or other highway |
| 32 | improvement is permitted by or erected by any governmental |
| 33 | entity in such a way as to screen or block visibility of the |
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| 37 | Remove lines 11 through 20, and insert: |
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| 39 | constitute a view zone on the State Highway System and |
| 40 | expressways for outdoor advertising signs; authorizing the |
| 41 | Department of Transportation and owners of outdoor |
| 42 | advertising signs to enter into agreements identifying |
| 43 | view zone locations; requiring governmental entities and |
| 44 | other violators to pay for lost revenues or sign market |
| 45 | values for violation of view zone requirements; amending |
| 46 | s. 479.25, F.S.; allowing permitted, conforming, lawfully |
| 47 | erected outdoor advertising signs to be increased in |
| 48 | height if visibility is blocked due to construction of |
| 49 | specified noise attenuation barriers; requiring sign |
| 50 | reconstruction |