In Billboard Permit Fraud in Etobicoke: 1140 Martin Grove Road we told you about two CBS signs on an Etobicoke property, one of which obtained a permit on false information.
Well, CBS Outdoor has been up to their old tricks again on Belfield, this time at 65 Belfield Road.
The sign in the background is a Pattison [...]
In At Bloor and Islington, CBS’s Latest Illegal Billboard Gets Built, we told you about CBS’s illegal billboard on railway land north of Bloor and Islington. We found another illegal CBS on Etobicoke railway land.
These two billboards are located on the north side of Evans Ave, east of Wickman and just west of the TTC [...]
Along Highway 27, where billboards are not permitted to be erected within 400 Metres, Pattison Outdoor has erected an illegal billboard at 161 Skyway without a permit. Or did it? The sign was built on Highway 27’s public road allowance. Building on the road allowance is pretty typical of Pattison’s Street Ads but we haven’t [...]
On the west side of Islington, north of Bloor, along the railway right of way, where third party ground signs on the same side of a railway crossing must be located more than 61 metres away from each other according to the Etobicoke Code, the west end’s latest adjunct to urban blight gets built. The [...]
The 401 is the busiest highway in North America and is enormously valuable billboard space. The Ministry of Transportation prohibits third party signs along the 401 but doesn’t enforce the law for various reasons. For the time being, we have to rely on municipal enforcement to take action against these signs.
Most billboards along the 401 [...]
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