Faced with a wall of community opposition and questions about his relationship with a New Jersey billboard owner, City Council President Brandon Scott tonight “pulled back” on a bill allowing large digital billboards to be built on railroad property alongside interstate highways.

Scott’s office announced that Ed Reisinger, chair of the Council’s Land Use Committee, was asked to cancel tomorrow’s hearing on Bill 20-0570, which faced a fierce blowback by neighborhood groups, who said the legislation made a mockery of the city’s 20-year-old billboard moratorium.

“Unless we see some miraculous change in community opinion, which is now too overwhelming for the president to ignore, that’s where we’re at. He hasn’t technically withdrawn the bill; he’s just taking his foot off the pedal,” Scott’s director of communications, Stefanie Mavronis, said tonight.

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