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Originally Posted by Eff-1
City registered a lien. They have 60 days to tear it down as of last week.
From how I read it, the owners are trying to focus their argument on the environmental side, since originally this was flagged as an issue by the city's environmental protection dept for the reasons you mentioned .
If you ignore the building permit violation and look at it only from the environmental side, the owners are asking the city to allow them to modify the building so it no longer goes past the 5m setback from the top of the bank, and then getting the proper variance permits.
But the staff are saying look: forget about the environment stuff, it was built without a development or building permit to begin with (which they likely never would have received due to the creek), and therefore should be torn down.
Owner's lawyer is arguing there's no proof as of yet that it's not safe, and that people build without permits all the time and the city usually works with people to allow for inspections after the fact, so they want the same approach here too.
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The only way a variance could be considered is through a QEP’s sign-off. However, it’s highly unlikely any firm would be willing to take that risk, as it could jeopardize their credibility and license given how much spotlight this site has nowadays
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Originally Posted by Eff-1
The other part that was interesting is they say they are a family who works hard and does everything by the book.
But I couldn't help but notice they lived in BC Housing, and then suddently a 6 million dollar house?? A cardiologist and the dad who is the head of a heating company living in gov't subsidized housing??
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I am wondering if global tv or cbc are doing their investigation to see if they can find out whether or not the owners were milking the BC Housing system for their own financial gains.