Out of the loop
All of you holding your breath until the county commissioners take up the urban loop scenic corridor law: please stop, you're going to turn blue.
The commissioners aren't scheduled to take up the ordinance until their second meeting in November, well after the Nov. 2 general election.
The most controversial point of the scenic corridor question is whether to allow billboards along the 44-mile urban loop, sometimes called Painter Boulevard. Greensboro passed a scenic corridor law that bans billboards two years ago.
But more than half of the loop is outside the city limits. A version of the law that the county planning board adopted allows a limited number of billboards along the loop. This has been a sore point with some city officials and residents who want Greensboro's billboard ban expanded into the county.