MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4
January 12, 2006
Hi Dave,
We have researched these two [billboards] and we have no records of any permits. I have issued a notice to the owner to either obtain a permit or remove the signs. I will keep you updated you as to the progress of these signs.
thanks,
Municipal Standards Officer
“Our contractor is in the process of having the signs removed….. This should happen today or tomorrow at the latest.”
Yet 5,479 days later, the illegal billboards are still there.
“The success of the billboard industry’s goal to mark public space as their own territory can be used as a litmus test for any city, in determining who’s in control: citizens or lobbyists. In Toronto, the answer is lobbyists.”