Newsgroups: can.politics
Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Subject: Re: Rent control, zoning, and politics.
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Date: Mon, 14-Mar-88 20:17:37 EST
Summary: bribery?
Message-ID: <1988Mar14.201738.21165@lsuc.uucp>
Distribution: ont
References: <594@oscvax.UUCP> <2303@unicus.UUCP> <2399@geac.UUCP>
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto

In article <2399@geac.UUCP> daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>  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.

Are you saying that bribery goes on in the Toronto municipal
government, or merely that the system, as constituted, might
permit it?  (I'm referring to illegal bribery, not tradeoffs
between builders and the city that are agreed to and that
are for the city's benefit.)

David Sherman
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