CBS Outdoor Builds Illegal Back-up at Bathurst and Lawrence
We have caught CBS Outdoor backing up another roof sign without a permit.
This time it’s in North York at 3029 Bathurst Street.
This is what the sign looks like from the front; these are side-by-side 10′x20’s under CBS identification plates 1377 and 1378:
And this is what the back of the sign looks like: 
We could tell that the 10′x20′ on the rear of the sign was new for two reasons. Firstly, there are no CBS 4-digit identification plates on the signs. IllegalSigns.ca has previously caught CBS illegally backing up signs by imputing the illegal activity from CBS’s use of non-sequential number plates.
For example, see Illegal Back-up at Bathurst and Bloor and Illegal Back-up: 1018 St. Clair Avenue.
CBS has since stopped using public number plates on illegally backed-up sites. Any time you now see a CBS 10′x20′ sign without a 4-digit number plate, it is almost invariably illegal. We can also tell that the sign was illegally backed up by looking at this low-flown aerial photograph from 2003:
Take a close look and you can see that there is no back-up in the photograph. Satellite images prior to mid-2008 show no back-up.
Only in recent images does the 10′x20′ show. For example, compare the 2003 image above to this one, which clearly shows the 10′x20′:
