Los Angeles city planning officials on Thursday recommended a six-month moratorium on all new billboards.

The move — which now goes to the City Council — is intended to give the city enough time to replace weak, ineffective restrictions on outdoor advertising that have allowed billboards to sprout almost unabated across the Los Angeles skyline.

The push for a moratorium on new billboards comes at a time when council members already are reviewing ways to stem conversion of standard billboards into digital displays and impose limits on multi-story “super graphics” stretched across buildings.

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