Richmond News
A 100-per-cent rental complex with 338 units, which will replace a 40-year-old condo building in city centre, got the go-ahead from Richmond city council on Monday.
But the proposal didn’t pass without opposition.
Three city councillors – Carol Day, Michael Wolfe and Harold Steves – argued two mature trees should be saved by building a taller building and thereby reducing the footprint of the complex. …
In 2018, the rules to wind up a strata corporation were changed allowing 80 per cent of the owners to make this decision instead of the 100 per cent as was previously needed.
At that time, Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie wrote to the province on behalf of city council expressing their opposition to the new rules.
Even the city’s general manager of development, Joe Erceg, said he doesn’t like the 80-per-cent rule, but, as he told the planning committee, it’s “out of your hands.”
As a safety precaution, however, a strata windup goes through BC Supreme Court where anyone who opposes the process can make their concerns known to a judge, explained Paul Roberts who was the lawyer for Ascott Wynde strata windup. …