See where billboards are awkwardly bumping smack-dab into SLC growth

They butt up against apartments. They take spots that could be for homes or shops. They’re all just signs of the times in a growing Utah.

The seemingly wacky wrangle on the southwest corner of Salt Lake City’s 300 West and 500 South — where a huge outdoor sign stands flush against luxury apartment windows in the new Post District — could be the perfect emblem. Glance again and view two gigantic rows of metal billboard towers standing six stories high over the Post District along both stretches of what the city calls its Grand Boulevards, those familiar segments of 500 South and 600 South that ferry motorists to and from Interstate 15 and the city center.

Though others see them as urban eyesores, billboard owners point out the signs also enjoy long-standing property rights, flowing from outright ownership of the ground beneath or through easements or ground leases. In many cases, these agreements follow the property and guarantee clear views by passing vehicles, covering multiple billboard faces in multiple directions.

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