City failing to enforce property standards on city-owned abandoned housing site

City failing to enforce property standards on city-owned abandoned housing site

“Demolition by neglect,” has become a favourite catchphrase around City Hall these days, coming on the heels of a report into last November’s collapse of a group of buildings in Gore Park. Then there was the collapse of the old Tivoli theatre—another example. Unfortunate as these examples are, there is another glaring example of demolition by neglect that has been going on for years, and in this case the negligent property owner is, er… the City…