For some time, Myles L. Lichtenberg has wanted to replace the old-fashioned outdoor advertising sign he owns on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard with a new digital billboard, the kind that displays up to six messages a minute.

But under the city’s 20-year-old billboard moratorium ordinance, Lichtenberg can only put up a new billboard if he takes down three.

That restriction has been good news for those who want to continue a policy to reduce Baltimore’s visual clutter, but problematic for people who have only one or two billboards.

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