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Originally Posted by casper
It would be Hilarious, if were not such a nuisance and intrusion of the city of Vancouver into the lives of it citizens. I have a family member that has been in and out of hospital a fair bit. Last thing we need to deal with is getting a letter from the doctor and having the hospital deal with this nonsense to satisfy some politicians desire to create the optics while all he is doing is create a make work activity for city staff to collect taxes.
Terrible intrusion on property rights. You save up to buy a home and you have the city come in and play games like this.
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You don't need to get a letter if you are not audited.
And for the record, there are lots of restrictions on how one's personal property can be used, so this is no more of an intrusion than the city telling you that you cannot have a pub in your home, have any more than 5 unrelated persons living together in your home, or not operating a B&B in your home.
I agree that the paltry 1% won't do anything to decrease the demand for land banking in this city, but what if it does? That's great. If it doesn't? Maybe they will raise the tax to 5% next year or take other
substantial, meaningful steps to making this city more affordable.