Passed with amendments
Council did include a couple of amendments to the proposed bylaws to ensure comprehensive monitoring and reporting on the first 200 units to be approved or after 2 years, whichever comes first.One other change is a requirement that the applicant pay the City’s Urban Forestry department to plant two trees somewhere in the City. This represents a cost of about $1,200 and is a relatively small ’tax’ on a backyard house. This underscores the importance of protecting our trees that came up often during the public consultations. It’s expected that Urban Forestry and the Committee of Adjustment will be making sure that healthy mature trees will NOT be allowed to be removed for the sake of building a garden suite.
- Where and what you can build
- How to contain costs and keep a low carbon footprint when you build
- How to avoid the common pitfalls in building in your backyard
- Accessible Design for Backyard Houses
- How to create a proper project budget for your Garden or Laneway Suite
- Examples of what has been and can be built
- Where you can build
- How fire access can be provided
- Site servicing strategies
- A reasonable project budget to build a Garden Suite on your property
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