Depending on how you organize the knock down, that can also sidestep Tarion as it's a "renovation". A friend in a crappy small sidesplit is living with a "renovated" neighbouring property. They kept part of a wall and it is at least triple the square footage, the FFE of the ground floor is above her roof line and there is another floor above that which starts above the peak of her roof.
To Mike's point, the first step is municipalities need a grenade. They are all broke. Unless someone wants to privately fund a $100M temple to hockey, they should be steel buildings with steel truss roof and no windows like all the 80's arenas that are still kicking. Cut municipal stupidity by 90% and you can reduce dc's by almost as much. For municipal buildings, no more net zero, no more green, no more LEED. Those are all just buzzwords to send budget to the moon with little positive effect other than a certificate on the wall and a press conference. Sure install heat pumps instead of boilers if that makes economic sense but chasing LEED points by washing dumptrucks at the construction site is beyond bonkers.
My buddy was out a construction site recently for a rich couple beyond Algonquin.
Ice cream cones and houses.
What about the slackers and entitled?
"We were completely ignored". As you should be, you wanker. You are trying to limit height of buildings for kilometers to preserve the view from an outdoor area that you don't even own. That should be an instant rejection from any planning/tribunal/court. The fact that they can file it and require a formal response is appalling.
The sad part is they are basing the fight on preserving a 90 year old factory that in Canada is "Historic".
One side should be responsible for the swing in either direction (or at least a defined split). When people or builders start to try to win in one direction while avoiding losses in the other direction, it all goes to hell. These contracts will have nothing about appraised value in them and the buyers are just wasting energy and exposing how dumb they are.
I didn't get a translation but assume they want the choice of the appraised price or contract price, whichever is lower.
I did something stupid. Why should it be my fault??
I assume they do too and that's the issue. Contract should have one of:
While I agree that contracts favour the builders in pretty much every case...none of these people were forced to sign it. Not a single one had a gun pointed at them saying 'sign here'.
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Condos are interesting as IIRC your square footage goes to the center of the party wall. If something changes and they need to make the wall thicker, that affects your usable space but legally nothing is different.
Another co-worker the unit was fine but the original building plans had 20 foot ceilings in the lobby and a waterfall, 10 foot and no waterfall was built (same thing zoning, building height...). He got them to upgrade the appliances and coutertops...
