Audits of By-Law Enforcement

Audit: 220 King Street West

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 ::: 1 Comment

In this Audit of By-Law Enforcement we look at CBS’s illegal sign at 220 King Street West, yet another illegal sign in the vinyl on a mural permit category.

On December 30, 2005, Officer Anthony Bartolo took this photograph of CBS’s sign. The file was transfered to Officer Danny Baird. On March 24, 2006, Officer Baird [...]

Audit: 340 Adelaide Street West

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

In today’s Audit of By-Law Enforcement, we take a look at Astral Media’s sign at 340 Adelaide Street West. This sign was removed in early 2007. Here’s what it lokes like:

In September 2001, with this permit application, Mitch Armata of Strategic Media applied for and obtained permit 01-174652 to paint a 79 square metre mural [...]

Audit: 77 Rankin

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 ::: 2 Comments

Yesterday in Ad Nauseam: 77 Rankin is Not a Fascia Sign on a Mural Permit we took a look at Titan Outdoor’s illegal fascia sign at Bloor and Lansdowne. We showed you that Titan Outdoor obtained Mural Permit 04-154106 to paint a substantially smaller sign at a substantially lower elevation than the vinyl sign they [...]

Audit: 254 Adelaide Street West

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 ::: 2 Comments

In this Audit of By-Law Enforcement we take a look at Titan Outdoor’s sign at 254 Adelaide Street West. This is what the sign looks like:

First, some history. On July 3, 1981, Mediacom’s Ron Phillipson obtained permit# 165881 to erect a roof sign at 254 Adelaide:

Then in 1995, Cieslok Outdoor erected an illegal vinyl fascia [...]

Billboard For Rent: 335 King Street West

Friday, October 12th, 2007 ::: 2 Comments

In this Audit of By-Law Enforcement, we look at two MLS investigations of Astral Media’s illegal fascia sign at 335 King Street West.

In December 30, 2005, Officer Anthony Bartolo took this photograph of the sign.
The file was transferred to Officer Danny Baird who, on February 23, 2006 decided that the sign was legal. Here are [...]