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Petkersaid. ile one business owner fights to images of Canadian soldiers and military Mweekslnter, Carnahan wascontacted The two different experience: surroundâ€" Weep commissioned artwork on hardware from the First and Second World by city bylaw olficials and told it was in con. ing two pieces ofartwork separated byjust a the exterior wall of his building. a Wars and Afghanistan travention of the city’s sign bylaw because it few hundred metres leads to questions of mural less than halfa kilometre up the road The city's sign bylaw states murals are contained ads in the form of ice cream how the city polices its Sign bylaw, and has escaped bylaw staff scrutiny despite not only permitted in the uptown core and are cones and the phrase 'Cool heats" it is also about the subjectivity ofdefining an. having any formal approval from the city subject to approval from the advisory comv outside of the uptown core. Keller said one of the him limitations Shawn (Iarnahan has spent the last mittee on culture and from council. A sign Carnahan did not talk to the city to dis of how the Sign bylaw is enforced is aware- month trying to convince bylaw ofiicers the permit costs 5212,82. but non-profit or miss the limitations placed on murals in the ness â€" officers can‘t be everywhere. and painting be commissioned on the outside of charity signs are exempt from the fee. city. and now has until Aug. 31 to remove it often act in response to mandamus. The City his Dairy Queen is an, not advenising, Businesses may also apply for a variance or to make it conform. He's also been told by can‘t say if it received any complaints about Meanwhile, a mural Just up the road at from the city at a cost of about 31.100. but his corporate headquanershehassodays to the Dairy Queen mural, citing privacy :95 Weber St N has gone seemingly unno tan still be denied by council remove it_ “They View it as gtalfiti. not an." concerns. George did say now that she was ‘ iiced by city staff "Both the navy club mural rind Henry said Cantahan.'1here's nothing l can do.” aware of the naval mural she would be folr when asked what steps that second Queen mural are outside the pan of the city (Zarnahan said he wanted to dress up an lowing up with it. but didn't elaborate how. mural. painted on the north t‘xlt'rllll wall of where murals are allowed. so technically otherwise drab wall and make it more inter- Despite being ordered by both his the building facing the K W Naval Assotiri they're both in contravention of the mural esting for his customers it's a sentiment corporate bosses and the city to remove the tion. went through to gain l ity approval pan ofthe sign bylaw.” \ald Keller shared by Gary Petker of the law firm Petker mural. Carnahan hasn't given up on his Mary (iuirge, licensing and standards man lhe naval mural "never did (come to the and Associates. who hired artist Gill Smith hope for colourful artw0rk on his wall. and agar at the city and hem Anne Milt-t adnsory committeei," \ht' said. "lhuU under to paint the military mural on the building he wants to see more murals decorating the Waterltxi's manager of ans and culture wow the circumstances, I'm not going to raise a his firm shares with several other tenants. exterior walls ofWaterloo. not even aware ofits eiostence stink about it ” “i always find that a long stretch of block Keller said one of her goals is to have the “I had no idea it was there." said Kelli-r, lhe city has raised a stink about the exte wall is rather boring." said Petker. He had it city revisit the Sign bylaw and perhaps also a member of the (1H 's adi isori rior wall artwork at the Dairy Queen lust painted as a way of honouring those who develop a separate section just for murals as (ntnmittee on culture down the street at the t ornr-r of Weber Street have served with the Canadian Forces. a way of promoting them, the mural. completed ('iiflit‘f this sum and University Avenue, though, alleging it is Neither of the men talked to the city “I welcome the opponunity to improve Inl'f. was officially unveiled last lliursday .tt .l(l\‘(‘rllslllg and not anwork about getting the naval mural approved the language iii the bylaw so we can encour a fundraiser for Wounded Warriors oi (ariiahan, whose faintly has operated llN‘ either, though they did receive permission age more people to take this up if there's a (ariada, a non-profit organization that helps Hurry Queen at ”it: turner of Weber Street from the other tenants, the naval association good and appropriate location.‘ she said a Exams ' ' '3‘ - . 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