I just spent all night (until 4am) putting up public signs legally (measuring tape and all), according to the provided candidate guide and the Election Sign By-law – E.-190-115.
Hoping the city knows the rules and that the enforcement staff don’t tear down perfectly legal signs like the one (at least mine) featured in this CBC article cover image, which is 10 ft from the roadway (over the 9.84 feet / 3-metre minimum).
I’m (Ben Durham – Ward 3 candidate) running a grassroots campaign that isn’t taking ANY developer money, so I’m just getting the bigger public signs out now because I’ve been hearing “I’m not seeing many big signs around, Ben!” from many excited but worried supporters over the last few weeks.
Want to learn more about my campaign? Read through my platform here.
That’s even though I have over 300 private lawn signs placed all across Ward 3 (thank you for all those who requested them / I’ll need to make another order for all the other requests on the waiting list 
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Cost breakdown
For everyone’s reference / transparency / curiosity, my cost breakdown for 60 units of full-colour 2’x4′ signs after hunting around for the best deal within the barebones campaign budget (thank you to all 50+ donors so far!!) is as follows, HST included:
- $40 – 1x post-pounder
- $1,082.91 – printing, 60 units of 2’x4′ signs
- $137.10 – sign shipping
- $237.96 – 90 units, 8ft 1×2 wood, 1000 units of zipties
- $19.20 – 500 units of grommets
Total cost for 60 units of 2’x4′ signs so far: $1,517.17
That’s $25.29 per sign.
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Volunteer hours
60+ hours of cumulative volunteer time for the large signs alone so far (mom, dad, wife, myself – thank you!), including:
- Researching, sourcing signs
- Sourcing a post-pounder from FB Marketplace and picking that up via cargo bike
- Soldering holes in signs, installing grommets
- Cutting stakes in half, making stakes pointy via cuts, drilling holes (for the zipties)
- Planning install locations, cross-checking with London’s Public CityMap GIS for each and every sign’s boundaries
- Loading up our hatchback over the last few nights & installing signs (15 left in inventory)
- Picking up leftover sign pieces from the recent Highbury & Huron intersection sign vandals (everyone’s signs were wiped out entirely from all corners
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