“There’s no question who’s calling the shots in the civic sign wars.”
-“The city’s top de-signer,” John Barber, The Globe and Mail, February 18, 2009

Astral Media officials Steve Wolowich and Ron Hutchinson have abandoned their plan to build video screens across the City after IllegalSigns.ca succeeded in getting the Buildings Department to recommend against approval of [...]

Astral Media is planning to build 10 LED Video screens across the City of Toronto, and we’re out to stop it. The Globe and Mail’s John Barber wrote this article about the issue yesterday, and today we appeared on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning [Windows Media File]:

The City of Toronto Buildings Department has quickly backtracked on [...]

At Toronto and East York Community Council yesterday, Clear Channel obtained a variance for the sign on the left, the vinyl wrap on the Atrium:

We’re of the opinion that Clear Channel will not be able to obtain a building permit to legalize their sign, on the basis that the Ontario Building Code prohibits vinyl fascia [...]

Etobicoke York Community Council has approved variances for another billboard on the QEW.
The approved sign is 40 feet by 30 feet, or six time larger than a standard 10′x20′ billboard. It is to be located at 270 Evans Ave, at Islington. This is what it looks like:

The variance approval represents quite a success for Paul [...]

Abcon Outdoor has leased the following two Dundas Street West properties in Ward 18 and is asking for variances.
The first property is located at Dundas and Dovercourt:

Abcon proposes a wall sign, facing west.
Further down the street, at 1484 Dundas West at Dufferin, Abcon seeks to develop a sign on this wall:

So let’s talk about the [...]