After passing resolution to approve a settlement between Lamar and the City of Orange Beach, the coastal community will go from four billboards to only one, which will be allowed to stay up for 12 years.

"For those that don¹t know, this has been one thorn in our side for a long time," Mayor Tony Kennon told attendees at Tuesday¹s council meeting.

According to Kennon, three of the four billboards presently on the beach

will come down immediately, and the one remaining billboard will become a tri-fold sign that will come down after 12 years.

"We feel extremely blessed to have been able to work out a deal with only one board standing up. Hopefully we will never have an issue with billboards in Orange Beach again. I think it is a good deal."

The one billboard remaining is located on the west end of Perdido Beach Boulevard near Sugar Sands Realty.