The Fort Worth Parks and Community Services, Transportation and Public Works departments and all city contractors, especially mowers, have been enlisted to help beautify the city by removing illegal signs staked in city parkways and mediums. Two days later, the sign inspection team had removed them all. Citywide, the recent crackdown has resulted in a 75 percent cleanup rate of commercial advertising since June, when the sign-beautification campaign began. Garage sale signs, however, remain the city's worst offenders. The city has asked the Fort Worth Star Telegram to distribute only one garage-sale directional sign instead of the two or three it normally gives free of charge to garage sale advertisers.
City code allows only two garage sales a year and only one sign per yard during the sale.
The museums and the city's Public Events Department are being asked to place fewer directional signs along mediums and to upgrade their existing ones. The biggest problem for the city is that most people who post advertising do it after 5 p.m. and on the weekends, when the sign inspectors are off duty. That's why the city's Code Compliance Division and the Police Department have been recruited to help catch people who post unlawful signs after hours. Political signs and home-builder directional signs, however, are allowed with certain restrictions. Political signs must be removed 60 days after the election or runoff.