The Cincinnati Planning Commission on Friday "approved an ordinance" allowing for a nearly 19-foot-tall and 32-foot-wide LED video screen "to be mounted outside" the Reds HOF at Great American Ball Park, according to Bowdeya Tweh of the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. The 6,900-pound board "would be installed before" the '15 MLB All-Star Game, which the Reds are hosting on July 14. With the ordinance, the commission required the video screen to "have a rotation of at least 30 seconds" when Freedom Way "is not closed to traffic." Moving images "would be allowed only when Freedom Way is closed to traffic." The video screen must be "dimmed or turned off during sundown to sunup hours to not disrupt" guests and residents of The Banks mixed-use development. Board programming will be "restricted to promoting" the team, the Reds HOF and Museum, the Reds Community Fund, and "activities of Banks tenants." The Department of City Planning and Buildings "recommended the commission not support the ordinance because of its longstanding policy to not promote variances to the city's zoning code, which it is charged with enforcing" (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 6/6).
