Here we will look at the City of Oshawa Open House sign bylaws, and explain them in detail, to ensure you meet all bylaw open house sign requirements when erecting your open house sign
3.2.1 No PERSON shall erect or display or cause to be erected or displayed any SIGN permitted on a BOULEVARD except in compliance with the provisions of this Subsection.
1) When placing open house signs on the boulevards, you need to ensure you don’t place it closer than 1 meter to the curb, or 2 meters to the road section/ asphalt, when a curb does not exist
2) No real estate open house sign can be higher than 1.2 meters, and no wider than 8 meters
3) No open house sign can stay at the location, or 500 meters around that location, for more than 72 hours. This does not include a statutory holiday day, but does include weekends.
4) Real estate open house signs will need to have certain information on then to meet Oshawa bylaw requirements for open house signs.
· Name
· Address
· Telephone number of the realtor/Real estate team. Brokerage
5) No open house signs on sidewalks and no signs impeding walkways
6) No sign shall be placed within 20 meters of an intersection if the sign is above 0.6 meters tall
7) No open house real estate sign shall alter, destroy, or obstruct view of anything that is supposed to legally be allowed on the boulevard already or on city of Oshawa streets
If you follow all the Oshawa open house sign bylaws, you will be left with a successful open house for your client. If you fail to meet these requirements, you run the risk of losing your costly open house signs. The costs to get signs from bylaw will be more than $100 a sign
