Building given OK to dismantle façade
The owner of the building on Esplanade whose condition, threatening collapse, caused alarm last month, has been given permission to dismantle the façade, stone by stone. How do the neighbours feel about this? No story on that here.
Spi 10:44 on 2019-06-04 Permalink
A great example of how you can drag your feet for years to finally get what you want. Once the facade is taken down (and the stones magically lost during transportation or “damaged” beyond usage) he’ll be able to sell the empty plot of land to a developer.
Douglas 12:23 on 2019-06-04 Permalink
He can always sell his properties for top price. People have been throwing offers at him for decades. Even in this state he could get offers for 1M each property in as is condition. In this case this guy should be thrown in jail for 30 days for such stupidity. Letting the northern property collapse is such a shame.
walkerp 13:26 on 2019-06-04 Permalink
He must be just crazy at this point.
Bill Binns 09:44 on 2019-06-05 Permalink
I don’t understand why the city is so quick to take a property by force to build a new road or expand the metro but refuses to do it in these situations. They simply need to start levying daily fines until necessary work is done. Once those fines (if unpaid) reach X% of the market value of the property, the city seizes it, sells it, takes their fines, court costs, taxes and selling costs and hands the remainder over to the former owner.
I suspect the city already has the necessary laws in place to pull this off. They just need to do it.