“I urge you to stand up to the unethical greedy outdoor advertisers who for years have been thumbing their noses at city bylaws. They are leaches who care nothing about the liveability of our City. Their product only serves to clutter the landscape. They are purveyors of ugliness.” “I was in Vermont this summer and I realized that one of the reasons that I was so relaxed is that there were no billboards except I think on the actual business or entry to their property. These signs were usually small but totally adequate to let me know that they were there and what they offered. Greatly reducing the number and size of billboards would cut down on the excessive stimulus that we are subjected to every day.”“Walking along Yonge to Dundas Square makes me feel dizzy. All of the stimulants coming at me of things that do not matter make me want to scream.”“The most offensive [signs] are the little ‘Map-in-the-Park’ things. Parks are meant to be places of beauty. It's clear that no tourist actually uses these fraudulent posts to get a map (the one in Allan Gardens isn't even accessible by a park sidewalk and has no purpose but to attract the Jarvis through traffic), so they are also dishonest, which makes them ugly both physically and morally.”“I like the large video boards at Yonge and Dundas and in Chinatown at Spadina and Dundas.”“I would like to see better publicized meetings about applications for billboard variances - it is my suspicion that a lot of people at least passively oppose the addition of new oversized billboards to their neighborhoods.”“Advertising is not a problem but there is a need to be careful not to be overwhelmed by it.”
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