A proposal to allow “super graphic signs” on a handful of downtown Lubbock high-rises faces a towering hurdle in Lubbock’s City Council — if it makes it that far.
Master developer Delbert McDougal’s request to change the city’s nearly 40-year-old sign code — which essentially bans billboards from downtown Lubbock — to allow colorful, 100-plus-foot-tall advertisements on mesh backgrounds to be displayed on the sides of downtown buildings would have needed unanimous council support.