All the billboards at 25 Richmond Street East are currently illegal. We showed you why in The Goings on at 25 Richmond Street East.

They weren’t always illegal - they just started off and ended up that way.
In April 1995, Gould Outdoor, a predecessor company of Pattison Outdoor applied for a permit to build two 10x’20′ [...]

Back in the day, the day Danny Starnino still lives in, third party ground signs were required to be separated from third party pedestal signs by 15 metres, but the separation requirement did not apply to signs on different street frontages. That by-law was changed in the early 1990s, so that by 1994, when Starnino [...]

The permit for this sign at 1156 Queen St East was obtained by Andrew Sim of Motomedia.  In order to obtain the permit, Sim had to file false information with respect to Separation of Signs. He falsely attested that the fascia sign at 1156 Queen Street East was not located within 60 metres of another [...]

And long after the Buildings Department first became aware the outdoor advertising companies were submitting false information to obtain illegal permits, they believed Abcon’s lies.
This is Abcon’s sign at 31 Widmer:

Here’s how Abcon obtained a permit for this sign. Zoning examiner Elvira Cerruto (whose manifest devil-may-care insouciance towards zoning by-laws we previously examined here and [...]

On the right is Pattison’s fascia sign at 672 Dupont Street:

There are three problems with the sign, which is on the north elevation of the building, facing Christie. Firstly, it is too high. Signs on this part of Dupont Street are limited to 10 metres from grade, and the variance granted to the sign permits [...]