FRAMINGHAM, MA – Urban blight. Billboards. Downtown Framingham has billboards and most in town would like to see them gone. The majority of the billboards are owned and maintained by Clear Channel Communications, (www.clearchannel.com).
The problem for the Town is that the billboards are “grandfathered“, meaning they were erected when no sign bylaws prohibited them, so the Town can’t just order them removed.
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