Incompetence in the City of Toronto Buildings Department is inflating faster than the Zimbabwean dollar.

In 2001, Danny Starnino’s Skye Media applied for variances to build third party signs along The Queensway at 1470 The Queensway and 125 The Queensway. He obtained the variance at 125 The Queensway, which was a conversion of a first party sign into [...]

The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto had a slate of signs by-laws that are still on the books. The laws [huge PDF] prohibited billboards from being within 45 metres of the Don Valley Parkway and certain portions of Mount Pleasant, Eglinton East, Lawrence East, Lake Shore East, and The Queensway.
Problem is, we have discovered that [...]

Tabello also has his detractors. Some, like [Bruce Baumann, managing director of OMDCanada], accuse him of “digging for minutia.”
- “Dude, Where’s My Sign,” Marketing Magazine, April 30, 2007
In 2004 Titan Outdoor acquired a handful of illegal vinyl wall sign locations from Mediacom/CBS Outdoor. Mediacom in turn had originally acquired the illegal signs from Murad Communications. [...]

In Astral Media: A Culture of Non-Compliance With the Law (Part One) we told you about Astral Media’s illegal billboard on the southerly elevation of 174 Spadina. Today, we take a look at the northerly elevation of 174 Spadina.
This is what it looks like:

This is a Strategic Media sign which is currently sub-leased to Astral [...]

Welcome back to Screw-Ups where we focus on Buildings Department errors with respect to Billboard Permits. Today, Abcon’s sign at 2 St Clair Avenue East:

On July 17, we wrote this letter to the property owner:

The sign was removed shortly thereafter. However, we do expect a re-erection, at which point we we’ll have to nail Dundee [...]