A painting of me

Geoff Teehan's eminent domain. ⇒

   15 June 2010, mid-afternoon

Shima mentioned this story to me a few days back, after the story broke in the Star. Joe Clark’s written all about it in his typical style. I agree with his position.

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  1. I don’t get this. The plot is either a historical site or it isn’t, right?

    In the former, he can’t tear it down. In the latter, he can do whatever he wants as long as the construction is approved.

    Everything after that just comes across as bitter name-calling.

    by tyler on June 15 2010, 6:17 pm   #

  2. Yeah, Joe Clark has some sort of issue with the dude, as far as I can tell. Joe Clark seems to have an issue with a lot of people.

    It’s up to the city to decide wether the plot is worthy of historical designation or not. I’m pretty sure they can do this whenever. I also think there are probably committee of adjustment issues that come into play when you try and tear a house down to replace it with something else. Shima or a planner can probably confirm.

    by ramanan on June 15 2010, 8:12 pm   #

  3. As long as he abides by the zoning by-laws he can build whatever the hell he wants. So that’s the trick: stick within the parameters set by the by-laws and your neighbours can’t say jack. As soon as you trigger a variance then it’s open season.. Though if the neighbourhoods claims seem unjustified the committee will usually pass any variance that is reasonable…

    It doesn’t seem like he’s going to the CoA, so I think the only way to stop him is to designate the property as a heritage building… which I thought was pretty hard.. but I may be wrong.

    But seriously, who’d want to live in a nieghbourhood where there is such animosity towards you and your family before you even move into the house. Sometimes I wonder how neighbours can say such stuff about each other in a public forum and then go home and keep living next to each other.

    by sh!ma on June 16 2010, 9:53 am   #

  4. Shawn Micallef wrote a more moderate view of the situation.

    by grant on June 17 2010, 10:13 am   #

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