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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Not sure about the fine part, perhaps a sternly worded note would do...
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The fine might actually be enough to make an out of town, absentee, landlord pay attention to the city he owns so much of the downtown in. He's got to play by the rules here, and I don't think that diplomacy will get very far if we are dealing with someone who doesn't actually care about the city in any civic sense (and seems to have divorced the collective cultural value of a significant building from the monetary value he could have leveraged from it). If he fixes it within a reasonable time frame, by all means, drop the threat of a fine.
However. Given that this happened in October, given that there appears to have been some back and forth between the city and the developer already, given that there was some obvious local outcry in the press, and given that the landlord has more or less stated that he doesn't want to adhere to the Provincial laws surrounding his registered heritage property. Given all that, I think a fine might be a last, and necessary, resort.
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