Proposed ‘Good Neighbour’ bylaw to crack down on nuisance properties
A new bylaw is being developed to toughen the city’s stance on problem properties.
The Good Neighbour Bylaw would consolidate a number of nuisance, property maintenance, and noise bylaws while giving bylaw officers more power to go after owners and residents of problematic homes.
“Fines will be given out for any violation when there’s non-compliance,” explained Community Safety and Enforcement Manager John Ramsay. “The reason for the structure for the fees is because we’re going to start charging people for the time it takes for the police officers, the fire, Bylaws to attend to those locations, and hopefully that will impact them to become compliant with the bylaw.”