{"id":389,"date":"2026-06-01T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradorelocationreport.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:34:29","slug":"does-fort-collins-have-a-ban-on-electronic-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradorelocationreport.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Does Fort Collins have a ban on electronic billboards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Yes.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fort Collins prohibits billboards and signs with displays that are more than 50% electronic, though government-owned land is exempt from the ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradorelocationreport.com\/?p=387\">Tina Peters is set for release from prison, but details remain shrouded in secrecy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billboards are defined as signs with an area of at least 70 square feet. Fort Collins also restricts sign illumination intensity and hours in and around residential areas and prohibits inflatable and rotating signs.<\/p>\n<p>Signs that are located on property owned by government entities are exempt from the city\u2019s sign code. That includes Colorado State University, which operates at least five large electronic signs in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Several state lawmakers representing the Fort Collins area introduced a bill that would have required CSU to follow local sign code earlier this year. The bill failed in committee.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradorelocationreport.com\/?p=385\">Colorado outdoor recreation office wraps up $3.6 million in federal grants to 50 projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other local bodies including Boulder, Colorado Springs and Larimer County also limit electronic signs, and Boulder prohibits \u201cmoving\u201d electronic signs that change their message more than once per minute.<\/p>\n<p><em>This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Colorado Sun partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs \u2014 bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradorelocationreport.com\/?p=383\">Where Colorado secretary of state candidates Amanda Gonzalez and Jessie Danielson stand on the top issues in the Democratic primary<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fort Collins Land Use Code <\/li>\n<li>Fort Collins Land Use Code <\/li>\n<li>Colorado General Assembly Senate Bill 26-038<\/li>\n<li>The Coloradoan See where CSU\u2019s new electronic billboards in Fort Collins are located<\/li>\n<li>Boulder City Charter Boulder Sign Code Section 9-9-21<\/li>\n<li>City of Colorado Springs Sign Application and Information<\/li>\n<li>Larimer County Land Use Code <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Fort Collins prohibits billboards with displays that are more than 50% electronic, though government land is exempt from the ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does Fort Collins have a ban on electronic billboards? - Colorado Relocation Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coloradorelocationreport.com\/?p=389\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does Fort Collins have a ban on electronic billboards? - Colorado Relocation Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes. 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