Counting billboards

Taking the responsibility into their own hands, groups of residents from around the city have organized to force the city to begin to do something about illegal billboards. Daily News.

Starting in Studio City and spreading to the Westside, the residents have taken to the streets to try to create an inventory of all the signs that are in their area, including which ones have gone digital. They hope to nail down which are illegal and have been allowed to remain in place because nobody is enforcing the law.

"I can tell you we are changing the attitudes today in my district," said Councilman Bill Rosendahl, where constituents in his 11th Council District on the Westside formed their own billboard posse two weeks ago and catalogued 563.