Comment 85422

By broken bylaws (anonymous) | Posted January 23, 2013 at 10:11:18 in reply to Comment 85403

He has broken bylaws, but the city does not enforce them. He has let the buildings fill with feces, he has not maintained them, and now he's claiming they are beyond repair.

We actually do have laws to protect heritage buildings and neighbourhoods, but our city does not use them as a tool.

It's time we started.

You can argue the letter of the laws all you want, but the theories I presented are valid. My point was in fact that we have laws to prevent people from damaging the environment with cars, and we should have stronger laws preventing people from damaging neighbourhoods with thier property neglects and demolitions.

When you own a piece of property, you actually are restricted from doing things that affect the buildings and people surrounding you. My argument is that we need better implementation and enforcement. Of course this has nothing to do with the colours of bedrooms but that was a nice try.

Blanchard does NOT want to put money in downtown Hamilton. He is a speculator. A land broker. He wants SOMEONE ELSE to put money downtown. And he hasn't found anyone yet. And with the kind of treatment he's been giving that block, he may never find someone.

When he has a developer, financing, building permits, etc - THEN we can talk about the value of replacing buildings. Tearing them down before any of this is absolutely going to affect all other property owners negatively, and SHOULD be against the law.

Two possible reasons that you're defending his moves:

1. You don't understand the basic fact that he has no development plan, is not actually a developer, and is not actually making an investment here,
or
2. You have some personal or financial relation to him or some other reason for supporting him.

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