{"id":746,"date":"2006-05-04T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T16:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=746"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:12:32","slug":"petty-laws-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/05\/04\/petty-laws-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Petty Laws Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dallasartsrevue.com\/ArtSpaces\/SherryO-garage-sale\/SO-sale-garage-898.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>London, Ontario city council has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/05\/02\/graffiti-bylaw.html\">just passed a law<\/a> <strong>banning under-18s from purchasing markers or spray paint<\/strong> without a parent or guardian present. Yes, that&#8217;s right &#8212; you need adult accompaniment to buy a marker in London. The aim is to reduce graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Toronto&#8217;s Planning and Transportation committee has sent forward a law for city council&#8217;s consideration that would <strong>ban anyone from having more than two garage sales a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not necessarily sympathetic to crude taggers, or people who turn their lawns into weekly sales lots (is there really some wave of garage-sale entrepreneurs sweeping the city?), these law seem ridiculously petty.<\/p>\n<p>Do councillors spend their time micro-managing their city because they don&#8217;t have the powers to make real decisions? Or does the provincial government avoid giving more powers to municipalities because initiatives like these show city councillors are too small-minded to exercise them? It&#8217;s a bit of a catch-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, Ontario city council has just passed a law banning under-18s from purchasing markers or spray paint without a parent or guardian present. Yes, that&#8217;s right &#8212; you need adult accompaniment to buy a marker in London. The aim is to reduce graffiti. Meanwhile, Toronto&#8217;s Planning and Transportation committee has sent forward a law for<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/05\/04\/petty-laws-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Petty Laws Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"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":[21757,21758,2],"tags":[28,17,2168,359,872,1105,2169],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-community","category-politics","tag-behaviour","tag-graffiti","tag-law-banning-under-18s","tag-london","tag-provincial-government","tag-spray-paint","tag-torontos-planning-and-transportation-committee"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Petty Laws Week - 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\/2006\/05\/04\/petty-laws-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Petty Laws Week - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London, Ontario city council has just passed a law banning under-18s from purchasing markers or spray paint without a parent or guardian present. 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