{"id":2257,"date":"2007-08-31T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:55:00","slug":"moscoe-delcares-war-on-highway-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/31\/moscoe-delcares-war-on-highway-billboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscoe delcares war on highway billboards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/21\/89141483_4eedb942b6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\">IllegalSigns.ca<\/a> found a new ally in councillor Howard Moscoe. The verbose politician from North York is asking for a freeze on sign permits throughout North York until the City&#8217;s licensing and standards inspectors have cleaned up the illegal signs that dot the 401 and 400 highways.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/article\/251901\">From today&#8217;s Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The City of Toronto should crack down on some 40 &#8220;illegal&#8221; billboards that face highways 401 and 400, says Councillor Howard Moscoe.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial property owners have been selling their advertising rights to third-party advertisers, which is illegal, Moscoe told reporters yesterday. It&#8217;s okay for a property owner to advertise the business, but not to sell that space for signs flogging consumer products, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both provincial and city rules prohibit third-party highway billboards, but enforcement is left to the city.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t get huge complaints about signs along the 401, but it&#8217;s a question of respect for the law,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What&#8217;s the point in having laws if in fact you aren&#8217;t enforcing them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moscoe is calling for a freeze on issuing any new sign permits in North York, which includes big stretches of the 401 and 400, to give time for the bureaucracy to come up with an enforcement strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I want them to do is to develop a system so that the companies cannot take advantage of the city. What we need is a sign permit issuance system that&#8217;s foolproof, that doesn&#8217;t allow these violations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/duchamp\/\">Stefan Powell<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IllegalSigns.ca found a new ally in councillor Howard Moscoe. The verbose politician from North York is asking for a freeze on sign permits throughout North York until the City&#8217;s licensing and standards inspectors have cleaned up the illegal signs that dot the 401 and 400 highways. From today&#8217;s Toronto Star: The City of Toronto should<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/31\/moscoe-delcares-war-on-highway-billboards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Moscoe delcares war on highway billboards!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759,2],"tags":[11,6646,408,330,593,6647,6648,19,341,6649,496],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-politics","tag-ad-creep","tag-advertising-rights","tag-councillor","tag-howard-moscoe","tag-location","tag-signs-flogging-consumer-products","tag-stefan-powell","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-star","tag-verbose-politician","tag-york"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moscoe delcares war on highway billboards!  - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/31\/moscoe-delcares-war-on-highway-billboards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moscoe delcares war on highway billboards!  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IllegalSigns.ca found a new ally in councillor Howard Moscoe. 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