Colorado State University is moving forward with erecting electronic billboards around its Fort Collins campus, something that would otherwise be against City of Fort Collins ordinances anywhere else in the Northern Colorado community. CSU has already started installation of the billboards around campus, confirming eight will be installed on the perimeter of the campus with an additional four being installed in the center of the university.
Fort Collins has a longstanding ordinance that prohibits such signage from being in the community as a way of trying to keep the city both visually appealing and uniform throughout.
The ordinance is often applauded for keeping the city beautiful, however it has been linked to causing other issues. Similar issues include causing the cellphone signal in parts of the community to be weak due to making construction of cellphone towers similarly difficult due to community ordinance standards…