Greenspace
Senior Member
A little late lolzzz
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Clearshades
Senior Member
Weeding is important you know.
Gronk!
Senior Member
I asked the office of Anne Stevenson if higher tax rates for derelict properties can be applied to the Arlington site:
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IanO
Superstar
That's BS... especially given that lot had a council order to 'restore' it to grade and remove the fencing.
David A
Senior Member
If in fact this law does not apply, whose failure is that? Who makes these laws? Our councilors need to look in the mirror.
CaptainBL
Active Member
Walking past last night. Weeds were up to about 5 feet in some areas of this site. Where’s bylaw enforcement?
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IanO
Superstar
Don't get me started about this site and the COE's lack of care/attention and the owner's complete disregard.
JNO1
Active Member
<sarcasm alert> Bylaw is way too busy giving out parking tickets downtown and tickets to private residential properties that aren't 100% weed free to be concerned with this trivial issue.
Greenspace
Senior Member
Make sure you report to 311 please.
CaptainBL
Active Member
I have a friend who owns a building in the 104 street area. He is a business owner and put up a large sign for his business on the side of his building and bylaw came by and had him take it down cause it was too big. All he could do is shake his head in disbelief at the priorities of bylaw/the city given everything else that should be much higher on the priority list.
Greenspace
Senior Member
^Guaranteed that sign got a bylaw complaint that they followed up on. It wasn't random enforcement. You need a development permit for all signage.
CaptainBL
Active Member
You just proved my point exactly......
In my experience as a resident of downtown who has called 311 on many different issues that bylaw seems to be preoccupied enforcing more innocuous issues than addressing repeated and known problem properties like Arlington
How many more times do we as downtown citizens have to call 311 about a known problem property that has sat in the shape it has sat in for the last almost two decades?
JNO1
Active Member
Every time I feel a little bit of hope that our core may be improving I just walk/drive by this site, the Teglar/BMO site, the site of the proposed Emerald tower, anywhere in the Quarters, (etc., etc.), and all that hope disappears. The fact that this site has been in this shape for more than two decades is a sad indictment of the complete ineffectiveness of our laws/bylaws as well as the leadership in this city.
kcantor
Senior Member
Now, now…. everyone here is just implementing the same landscape “naturalization” policy the city is pioneering for their own public spaces.
David A
Senior Member
Naturalization, for those that like spin, corporate speak or bureaucratese, it sounds so much better than the word neglect.