It was a fantastic day at City Council and someday we should let you know the inside scoop of how a rag tag team of public space and arts activists beat a murder of high priced billboard lobbyists and convinced City Council to adopt the Buildings Departments’ recommendations to adopt a $10.4 Million billboard tax [...]

Last week, City Council put off the Sign By-Law and Billboard Tax debate until 10am Monday morning while it considered other business. In the meantime, City Council’s public gallery was packed with billboard lobbyists and activists.
From time to time, City Councillors would chat with members of the public as well as the industry’s paid lobbyists. [...]

So it’s about time the billboard industry read the writing on the wall instead of putting it there without a permit.
Follow the debate on Twitter at #TOCouncil and view the live video feed at Rogerstv.com.

Yesterday City Council debated the new Signs By-Law and Billboard Tax for about 4 hours until the debate was adjourned to deal with ice rink time allocation. The best place to follow what is happening is at the #TOCouncil hashtag on Twitter, where we will be contributing updates.
We expect the debate to continue either later [...]

This morning, City Council approved the order paper for this meeting of City Council. Due to the large number of people expect to turn out, it was agreed that the Signs By-Law and Billboard Tax would be debated at a set time: 9:30 tomorrow morning. See you in council chambers.