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Sign Variance Committee decides · Fri, Sep 18

Sign Variance Committee to decide appeal of Chief Building Official's refusal of wall signs for self-storage facility at Caledonia Park Road

Ward 9, Davenport

The Sign Variance Committee will hear an appeal of the Chief Building Official's rejection of two proposed wall signs for a self-storage facility at 70 Caledonia Park Road. The CBO refused the applicant's proposal but approved different signs with additional conditions instead. One party to the original hearing has appealed that decision, and the committee will conduct a fresh review to determine whether the applicant's original proposal or the CBO's alternative meets the city's sign variance criteria.

How to act

Residents in the area may have been part of the original hearing or appeal; the meeting date and deputation deadlines would be on the city agenda.

The journey

Fri, Sep 18 · Sign Variance Committee · scheduled, not yet heard
Why is this story here?
ContainedA single-site sign variance for one property. The decision is binding for this location but does not set precedent affecting future sign variances citywide, as each variance is evaluated individually against the eight mandatory criteria. Reversible if the applicant reapplies with a different proposal.Invisible to residentsThis is a sign variance for a commercial self-storage facility. No resident's commute, rent, street safety, or daily access is affected by whether two wall signs meet variance criteria. The decision touches only the property owner and immediate visual conditions at one industrial address.

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The record as the City filed it

Staff recommended

The Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building recommends that: 1. The Sign Variance Committee refuse to grant the two requested variances to subsection 694-21 I(5)(a), each subject to one condition, as required to allow for the issuance of a sign permit respecting the erection and display of Proposed Sign #1 and Proposed Sign #2 contained in the Applicant-Proposed Sign Variance, as further described in Attachment 1 to this report.

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2. The Sign Variance Committee grant the two requested variances to 694-21 I(5)(a), each subject to one condition, as required to allow for the issuance of a sign permit respecting the erection and display of Proposed Sign #1 and Proposed Sign #2 contained in the CBO-Designed Variance, as further described in Attachment 2 to this report.

Considered

Official title: Appeal of the Chief Building Official’s Decision for a Sign Variance Application for Two First Party Wall Signs at 70 Caledonia Park Road · the item as the City filed it

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