Post by mllemass on Nov 24, 2017 7:46:39 GMT
Here are some of the reasons from my local paper for neighbours objecting to renovations/additions:
A man bought a mansion in a very wealthy neighbourhood and immediately took down a bunch of trees. The neighbours flipped out! When he was interviewed, the man said he planned to turn his front yard into a parking lot. The wealthy neighbourhood is just a few houses away from a hospital, and parking is so difficult to find that he was going to take advantage of the situation and charge people to park on his property. He had the permits, and he had done the same thing in other cities. I don't think he continued with it because the neighbours said they'd be out there every day protesting if they had to.
In my less-wealthy neighbourhood, a permit was given to someone who wanted to build a massive addition to his house. The house was already big, so the neighbours were suspicious about the reason for the addition. We have a university nearby, and it's common to find single-family homes turned into student housing with the landlord living in another city. It's easy to spot those houses - they're huge, in nice neighbourhoods, with beer cans and other garbage strewn on the front yard. Our family once owned one of these houses, but my father lived down the street and was there every day making sure our tenants were behaving. And we rented the house to one person who then took on the responsibility of anyone else they allowed to live there. But the houses on either side of us were "party" houses, with the police often showing up to deal with problems. So this person who wanted to build the massive addition was on the news assuring everyone that his own family would be living in the house and it would not be turned into a frat house. I don't believe him, but time will tell!
A man bought a mansion in a very wealthy neighbourhood and immediately took down a bunch of trees. The neighbours flipped out! When he was interviewed, the man said he planned to turn his front yard into a parking lot. The wealthy neighbourhood is just a few houses away from a hospital, and parking is so difficult to find that he was going to take advantage of the situation and charge people to park on his property. He had the permits, and he had done the same thing in other cities. I don't think he continued with it because the neighbours said they'd be out there every day protesting if they had to.
In my less-wealthy neighbourhood, a permit was given to someone who wanted to build a massive addition to his house. The house was already big, so the neighbours were suspicious about the reason for the addition. We have a university nearby, and it's common to find single-family homes turned into student housing with the landlord living in another city. It's easy to spot those houses - they're huge, in nice neighbourhoods, with beer cans and other garbage strewn on the front yard. Our family once owned one of these houses, but my father lived down the street and was there every day making sure our tenants were behaving. And we rented the house to one person who then took on the responsibility of anyone else they allowed to live there. But the houses on either side of us were "party" houses, with the police often showing up to deal with problems. So this person who wanted to build the massive addition was on the news assuring everyone that his own family would be living in the house and it would not be turned into a frat house. I don't believe him, but time will tell!
