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Thursday, April 22, 1999 | 10:48 a.m.
The Boys and Girls Club of Las Vegas withdrew its request Wednesday for a zone change on a 1.6-acre parcel that would have allowed a 60-foot-tall billboard to be installed next to U.S. 95.
Commissioners Bruce Woodbury and Dario Herrera agreed to give the club $250,000 -- the same amount it would have received from leasing the land for the sign -- using discretionary capital improvement funds.
Neighbors in the Mesa Vista neighborhood near Tropicana Avenue and the freeway, complained the sign would tower over their back yards and might carry distasteful messages. Boys and Girls Club officials need the money to complete a $1 million facility in Green Valley.
They said Wednesday they might make a deal with the county that would allow a park to be built on the controversial piece of property.
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