Tough New Billboard By-Law Set for St. Catharines, Ontario
A public meeting was held in St. Catharines on Monday to consider tough new restrictions on billboards.
We previously look at an illegal St. Catharines Pattison billboard: In St. Catharines, Inspector Mychaskiw Catches Grant Sign Service Red Handed.
The proposed new signs by-law would only permit billboards on vacant lots. When the property is re-developed the sign would have to be removed. There would be a 300 metre separation distance between billboards and a 100 metre separation from residential zones.
A lot of the hard work in obtaining the tough new restrictions was done by a group called Scenic St. Catharines. The Standard wrote this article on the issue yesterday.
The staff report is available starting on page 3 of this PDF. City Staff rejected proposals to license sign companies saying “City staff are not aware of any other municipality who requires licensing of sign companies.” That may change soon as staff in Toronto will be reporting on sign company licensing.
IllegalSigns.ca is currently researching possible illegal billboard locations in St. Catharines where we believe that Pattison is sometimes operating two signs where they have a permit for one sign, and where separation requirements may have been violated in a few cases. Stay tuned.
February 11th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Hi, thankfully, some people are also offended by the huge signs that invade our vision. I am speaking in particular of the porn ads for sex shops, located in residential neighborhoods. sick.