Etobicoke

Illegal in Etobicoke: Another Bad Permit On Belfield Road

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 ::: No Comments

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 [...]

At Wickman and Evans Ave, Another Illegal CBS Billboard on Etobicoke Railway Land

Monday, October 29th, 2007 ::: No Comments

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 [...]

Illegal In Etobicoke: Pattison’s Highway 27 10′X40′

Monday, October 8th, 2007 ::: No Comments

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 [...]

At Bloor and Islington, CBS’s Latest Illegal Billboard Gets Built

Monday, September 3rd, 2007 ::: No Comments

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 [...]

Illegal in Etobicoke: Along the 401, Third Party Signs Are Operating Under First Party Permits

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 ::: No Comments

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 [...]