Question: What can a committee do to order an owner to restore the appearance of his lot to match other lots once changes have been made?
I know there is a process for enforcing by-laws but what can a committee do to order an owner to restore the appearance of his lot to match other lots?
Can the committee approve a motion at the committee meeting to make this order? So far, no notice has been issued to the offending lot owner.
Answer: If the owner doesn’t comply with a breach of bylaw notice, the committee can then proceed to have the matter resolved in a court.
The Committee can agree to issue a notice against an owner for breach of a by-law and if the owner doesn’t comply they can then proceed to have the matter resolved in a court. For a case like this I expect you would need to show that there is consistency across the other lots and that the owner’s changes had disrupted this.
This post appears in Strata News #561.
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