2010-09-21 Decision Document - Sign Variance Committee

The Decision Document and Decision Summary are for preliminary reference purposes only. Please refer to the Committee’s Minutes for the official record.

Declarations of Interest, if any, appear at the end of an item.

Minutes Confirmed - Meeting of July 27, 2010.

The Sign Variance Committee:

1. Refused the variance requested from § 694-22. A. to allow the issuance of a sign permit authorizing the erection and display on the northerly-facing wall of the premises known municipally as 2 Queen Street East of third party wall sign displaying electronic static copy.

2. Refused the variance requested from § 694-22. C. to allow the issuance of a sign permit authorizing the erection and display on the northerly-facing wall of the premises known municipally as 2 Queen Street East of third party wall sign erected on a designated heritage building.

3. Refused the variance requested from § 694-22. D. to allow the issuance of a sign permit authorizing the erection and display on the northerly-facing wall of the premises known municipally as 2 Queen Street East of third party wall sign within 100.0 metres of another third party wall sign.

4. Refused the variance requested from § 694-26. B.(1)(d) to allow the issuance of a sign permit authorizing the erection and display on the northerly-facing wall of the premises known municipally as 2 Queen Street East of third party wall sign exceeding a sign face area of 20.0 square metres.

5. Refused the variance requested from § 694-26. B.(1)(a) to allow the issuance of a sign permit authorizing the erection and display on the northerly-facing wall of the premises known municipally as 2 Queen Street East of third party wall sign erected within 30.0 metres of the intersection of a major street with any other street.

To obtain the five separate variances to Chapter 694, Signs, General, required to allow Streetlife Media Inc. to make an application for a sign permit to allow for the erection and display, along the northerly-facing of the existing building on the premises with the legal description of Lot 1 & Part Lot 2 RP 22-A Lots 179, 181, 183 & 183 ½ RP 384 and Part of Park Lot 8 Concession 1, From The Bay, and known municipally as 2 Queen Street East of one third party wall sign, which:

- Is illuminated.

- Is erected within 100 metres of other lawful third party signs.

- Is erected within 30.0 metres of the intersection of a major street with another street.

- Is not erected within 30.0 metres of any premises located, in whole or in part, in an R, RA, or OS sign district.

- Is the only third party ground sign erected on the premises.

- Is at a height of 12.2 metres, and contains only one sign face, said sign face being 4.57 metres wide by 6.1 metres high for a sign face area of 27.88 square metres, and displaying electronic static sign copy.

Providing comments from Heritage Preservation Services on the application for five third party sign variances with respect to a proposal at 2 Queen Street East.

The Sign Variance Committee:

1. Amended Sign Variance Committee By-law No. 1, Rules of Procedure for the Sign Variance Committee, substantially in accordance with the amendments set out in Appendix A to the report dated September 10, 2010, from the City Solicitor to provide for the consideration of adjournment requests, with the following amendment:

a. the list of relevant matters which may be included as generally relevant considerations for the Committee in determining whether an adjournment is required, as set out on page 3 of the report dated September 10, 2010, from the City Solicitor, be included in Sign Variance Committee By-law No. 1, Rules of Procedure for the Sign Variance Committee.

The purpose of this report is to respond to a request from the Sign Variance Committee (the "Committee") that the City Solicitor report with respect to the procedures for the granting of adjournments.

Meeting No.	3	Contact	Yvonne Davies, Deputy Secretary
Meeting Date	Tuesday, September 21, 2010	Phone	416-396-7288
Start Time	9:30 AM	E-mail	sbc@toronto.ca
Location	Committee Room 2, City Hall	Chair	Ted Yao

Session Date	Session Type	Start Time	End Time	Public or Closed Session
2010-09-21	Morning	9:35 AM	11:44 AM	Public

Date and Time	Quorum	Members
2010-09-21 9:35 AM - 11:44 AM (Public Session)	Present	Present: D'Angelo, Janzen, Pletsch, Saati, Yao (Chair)

1a	Application by Streetlife Media Inc. for Five (5) Third Party Sign Variances With Respect to a Third Party Sign Proposal on a Northerly-facing Wall of an Existing Building at 2 Queen Street East


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