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Originally Posted by dhillon09

a family member made a house w/ suite in east van, and about a year later the city came by to inspect it. We just put the tenants up in a hotel for the weekend and removed the cabinets -- got it approved and re-installed all the cabinets. Maybe a day's worth of work max

Thanks, it sounds like the process is a bit of theatre. It seems from this and others that the city is caught between a rock and a hard place - they need more housing so don't want to force people out of their homes but they also want to get compliance and extra revenue - so they are just doing cursory checks to see if a kitchen is in place.

The zoning for the unit I'm looking at allows for a suite and I think it wouldn't be too hard to get it approved so I'll look into it as the "theatre" will be harder to do with this unit.