Bylaw what bylaw?
Recent media attention has focused on the city’s stubborn refusal to allow the Uth Ink street playwright program to post signs in Hintonburg. Councilor Leadman has vowed to fight for the program’s signs and no doubt the story isn’t over yet. ( Editor’s note: it now looks like Leadman has won the day, see CBC story here)
Meanwhile, the Oracle has news of group of residents on a neigbourhood street who have been coming together to post their own signs for the past several years
They are happily ignoring the signage bylaw – and in the process adding visual interest and no small amount of pride to their particular block.
One resident of Stirling Avenue was there when the idea for the Hip Strip was born; she gives us the inside story in the audio clip below.
