Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Rent control, zoning, and politics.
Summary: And "variances"
Message-ID: <2399@geac.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 14:25:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2399
Posted: Mon Mar  7 09:25:09 1988
References: <594@oscvax.UUCP> <2303@unicus.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <2303@unicus.UUCP> craig@Unicus.COM (Craig D. Hubley) writes:
>Someone also brought up that vacancy was dropping and rents were rising
>*before* rent control, and that in fact is *true*.  But the reason is 
>again political:  zoning.  Toronto has the most restrictive zoning laws
>in the *world*, and not coincidentally the easiest to bribe your way
>around

  Specifically, if one wants to add a deck to the roof of your
garage, you have to apply for an get a variance to your zoning.  
  This applies to almost any neighbourhood in Toronto proper, even
if you have the only un-decked roof in the area (say, census tract).

  This is a **wonderfull** incentive to those who are into
soliciting bribes: getting a variance can take weeks or years,
depending on lord-knows-what.

--dave (I won't live downtown) c-b
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