This is Astral Media’s illegal billboard at 255 Consumers Road: Let’s take a look how it got built. In July 2002, City Council granted this variance [PDF] to build two first-party ground signs on this property: The first-party signs were 350 square feet in area, which explains why Astral Media’s 10′x20′ sign face is too [...]
This CBS Outdoor back-to-back 10′x40′ just went up a few weeks ago – it is located in the rear of 2025 Wilson Ave: Like all billboards along the 401, it is not nameplated; however, it is not difficult to recognize the type of structure CBS builds. Would you buy a used car from these guys?
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Corruption in a Buildings Department is indistinguishable from incompetence in a Buildings Department. There are so many serious, ongoing improprieties in the way the Buildings Department in North York is issuing and inspecting billboard permits that IllegalSigns.ca is beginning to wonder. The law is very simple along Highway 401: billboards are completely prohibited within 400 [...]
We received an urgent call from a certain sign service professional on Sunday. Turns out Jim Pattison can’t stop breaking provincial and municipal laws regulating signs along Toronto’s highways. There were already four illegal Highway 401 billboards on Beverly Hills Drive. CBS has been operating double-faced illegal signs at 51 and 55 Beverly Hills. Over [...]
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