TD Place billboard an eyesore for some area residents
Posted Jul 20, 2016 05:41:38 AM.
Last Updated Jul 20, 2016 07:29:20 AM.
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OTTAWA – A billboard at TD Place is ruffling some feathers.
The bright green TD sign on the backside of the Ottawa Redblacks stadium can be seen from the Rideau Canal, and some residents tell the Metro it’s not appropriate for the heritage landscape.
Many are calling it a ‘knife in the eye’ for visitors and locals, including John Dance, who tells the paper he has been trying to have the sign removed sign it was installed two years ago.
“If we want to retain that UNESCO World Heritage Site designation for the canal, it has to come down, or be severely modified,” Dance says.
However, OSEG says the sign is compliant.
Meantime, according to the city’s sign bylaws, billboards should be 500 metres back from the queen Elizabeth Parkway, and the TD sign is only 50. However, the paper says Lansdowne has its own sign rules, and the billboard complies with every one of them.
