[ATrain]

umm, I still haven't seen any progress regarding this latest mission...am I just blind or what?

[Libertine]

anybody noticed the big cleared out section a couple mountains over?

The Bald Spot has a Soul Patch.

[thepostman]

i noticed a HUGE clearing just north of the bald spot and don't remember it ever being there, but it doesn't seem like it would be a good spot for the big LU lettering

[LUconn]

It's like 1 or 2 peaks over from the bald spot. Like if you're on Candlers mountain Rd next to the mall but before you take the right to go in the direction of the church, It's the peak directly in front of you. The bald patch on it has been growing everyday. I've been trying to figure out how they get to it to clear it out because I want to drive up to it. I figure it's off of Sunnymeade.

[PAmedic]

Black Helicopter for access

[qkslvrsrfrboy]

i remember a couple of days looking at one of the far mountains and seeing the trees taking shape of LU, but i havent been far enough away from campus to see it again

[LUconn]

Yeah, it was kinda goofy but if you squinted real hard it looked like they were letters. But really it was just the start of them clearing out stuff. Now it's just a big O

[SuperJon]

I finally saw the spot yesterday.

[qkslvrsrfrboy]

instead of putting LU, how about cutting jerrys face into the mountain

[ATrain]

Well, LU is finally on the mountain...but they didn't use trees to put it there

[qkslvrsrfrboy]

its just a plastic tarp version of it that they did solely for homecoming, they are going to be using like white rocks soon but they still dont have the actual city permits to even put LU up there i guess

[SuperJon]

It looks like a giant duct tape LU. The letters are screwed up too.

[A.G.]

I would like to see an interlocking LU logo

[SuperJon]

I think that would look best.

[01LUGrad]

There was a story about this in the News & Advance today (I'm too lazy to look for it). It didn't sound like the top dogs in Lynchburg (other than Jerry Jr.) were too thrilled about the whole thing. Some big question regarding a sign ordinance.

By the way, I think it would look better if it was closer to the football stadium, but I guess it's too late for that...

[PeterParker]

Source:
http://www.newsadvance.com

LU makes its mark on Central Va.


By Ron Brown
rbrown@newsadvance.com
October 13, 2006


Give your opinion on this story



Liberty University is moving forward with its idea of putting an “LU” monogram on the side of Candlers Mountain.

On Friday, workmen put the finishing touch on a plastic-sheet version of the 200-foot letters that run adjacent to LU’s North Campus.

Motorists traveling along Candlers Mountain Road in Lynchburg can easily see the white letters.

LU Vice Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announced his plans for the monogram last month.

He said the plastic sheet letters would help officials determine exactly where the letters should be placed on the mountainside.

“The finished product will look 100 percent better than what you see up there this weekend,” Falwell Jr. said.

He said the plastic sheet letters were installed as a way to celebrate LU’s homecoming weekend.

“They will help us perfect the size of the letters,” he said.

The final version of the monogram will be made out of decorative landscape stone.

“When we’re through, it will look like a small park,” he said.

“There will be landscape beds in the shape of letters.”

Ultimate, LU plans to plant grass on the three-acre site surrounding the letters.

Just how the letters will play with City Hall remains to be seen.

City Manager Kimball Payne said Friday the letters were supposed to be temporary and permanent letters in a similar style would require a permit from City Council.

Falwell Jr. said the school would be in compliance with city regulations as articulated by city zoning officials.

An e-mail from city zoning official Rob Fowler on Sept. 20 outlined precisely what LU can do.

“I am taking the position that if the existing vegetation or other natural materials were to be used for the monogram that it would fall outside sign ordinance requirements,” Fowler wrote.

[nickrichard]

Did anybody get a pic this weekend? Would love to see it.

[TDDance234]

You don't want to see it right now.

It looks like crap.

[Purple Haize]

1. At least they didn't mis spell it!
2. Don't BET they will fix it LOL

[PAmedic]

PREPARE TO BE IMPRESSED
(hey, its a start)

from my hotel


a better shot from Williams

[Sly Fox]

It needs some tweaking. But its not as bad as some of you guys indicated.

[PeterParker]

"When we’re through, it will look like a small park,” he said.

“There will be landscape beds in the shape of letters.”

Ultimate, LU plans to plant grass on the three-acre site surrounding the letters.

Any left over fieldturf?

[PAmedic]

It needs some tweaking. But its not as bad as some of you guys indicated.

what, guys exaggerating on here?

[SuperJon]

Sly, you've seen it once. I drive past it multiple times a day so I have seen it from almost every angle. The letters are two different sizes and it looks like duct tape. I know it'll get better but for now it looks bad. And interlocking LU would be best.

[PAmedic]

and when the rest of the area's vegetation grows back in, the whole project will have a cleaner look. Right now it looks like they Napalm'd the mountain and threw down some plastic.

I'm betting the "townies" are FAR from happy over this one- esp those who insist its Candlers Mtn, not Liberty Mtn (and may have a legitimate point)