ASK!: Unwelcome signs

By Mike Rudeen, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published October 29, 2008 at 6 p.m.

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Sean wonders whether the signs he's seen posted on streetlights, telephone poles and other spots on city right of way promoting junk-hauling services, work-from-home businesses and the like are legal and whether the city takes them down.

They aren't legal, they're unsightly and they're dangerous because they distract drivers, said Julius Zsako, spokesman for Denver Community Planning and Development.

Several posts on the ask! blog advised ripping the signs down yourself or calling the numbers listed and complaining. Zsako advises against removing them yourself, particularly if you have to stop on a busy street to do it. He suggests calling the city at 311 to alert enforcement personnel to the location of the signs and letting the pros remove them and call the advertisers.

If you live outside Denver, check with your city or county government for the procedure there, but I'm guessing it's similar.

In a recent column, I wrote about Pikes Peak International Raceway and put it in the wrong city. It's in Fountain, just south of Colorado Springs.

Here's a new poser:

When I was growing up in Colorado, we had a mere six electoral votes. Now we have nine, but by law there are still 435 seats in the U.S. House. Which state (or states) has lost seats? - Phil

Know the answer? Post it on the Ask! blog, blogs.RockyMountainNews.com/denver/ask, or e-mail rudeenm@RockyMountainNews.com. While you're there, check out other questions on the Ask! home page, or post one of your own by clicking on the link to the right on the page.

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