CITY OF LAKE WALES v. LAMAR ADV. ASS'N

No. 60635.

414 So.2d 1030 (1982)

CITY OF LAKE WALES, Florida, Petitioner, v. LAMAR ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION OF LAKELAND, FLORIDA, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robin Gibson of Gibson & Connor, Lake Wales, for petitioner.

Michael D. Martin of Martin & Martin, Lakeland, for respondent.

Michael S. Davis, Chief Asst. City Atty., St. Petersburg, for City of St. Petersburg, amicus curiae.

Gerald S. Livingston of Livingston & Laubach, Orlando, for Florida Outdoor Advertising Ass'n, Inc., amicus curiae.

Thomas M. Harris of Harris, Barrett & Dew, St. Petersburg, for Metromedia, Inc., amicus curiae.

John M. McNatt, Jr. and J. Stephen O'Hara, Jr. of Mathews, Osborne, McNatt, Gobelman & Cobb, Jacksonville, for The Outdoor Advertising Ass'n of Florida, amicus curiae.

Talbot D'Alemberte and Jeffrey Bercow of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, and Eric J. Rubin of Rubin & Winston, Washington, D.C., for Ackerley Communications of Florida, Inc., amicus curiae.


McDONALD, Justice.

The Second District Court of Appeal has certified the following question as being of great public importance:

Can a municipality separately classify off-site advertising signs and on-site signs solely on the basis of aesthetics, thereby restricting the size of off-site signs?

City of Lake Wales v. Lamar Advertising Association, 399 So.2d 981, 987 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981). We have jurisdiction...

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