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One more billboard sign along Highway 60 was one too many for Lake of Bays Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At their August meeting, councillors were asked to approve another sign on Hwy 60 at civic address 2213. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Markham of Melissa Markham Planning & Associates was before council representing the applicant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, she said the applicant had already erected the sign and signed a lease, having received MTO approval. She said the applicant had since been advised that the sign, which has since come down, would also require a permit from the Township. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was before Lake of Bays Council looking for that approval. If approved, the sign would be located on a residential property, which council heard would be approximately two acres in size. However, the Township’s sign permitting bylaw indicates that signs are not allowed on properties with a residential use and\/or less than 50 acres in size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Markham argued that there were already about 45 signs between Harp Lake Road and Oxtongue Rapids Park Road and it appeared that none, or most, were not in compliance with the Township’s sign bylaw. “I was actually surprised that there were 45 billboard signs along that stretch of highway 60\u201415 kilometres of road within the municipality,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Municipal staff said the signs or sign holders were already in place in one way or another before the Township bylaw was passed in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Markham also noted that billboard signs in the township provide important marketing and advertising venues for local businesses, although staff noted that there is also no way to control what gets advertised on them. In the end, council voted against the exemption request. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake of Bays Mayor Terry Glover said he regularly receives complaints about signs and suggested the municipality send the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) a letter “with regards to the sign pollution in our area,” said Glover. “If they’re starting to think this is a good way to raise money for the province, or whatever they’re thinking, they need to know that … people don’t want to look at that stuff on their way.” Glover said there are other ways to advertise, “but more signs is ridiculous in my view.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor George Anderson agreed. “I’m certainly not in favour of the billboard sign invasion. The thing that concerns me also is that these new signs going in, they are for rent, and you never know what is going to be placed on them, so all of a sudden, we could have material that we really don’t want to see within our township, so I would support what you’re saying,” Anderson told Glover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Municipal staff is expected to review the sign bylaw again this winter and recommend updates. They will also investigate as many as three new signs on Hwy. 35 for which they have no municipal permits, according to Stephen Watson, Lake of Bays Director of Building and Bylaw Services.<\/p>\n\n\n

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