Still no City of Greater Sudbury action on derelict buildings

After a 16-month wait, a municipal report on how to deal with abandoned or derelict buildings was finally tabled for Tuesday’s city council meeting.“It’s never fast enough,” Ward 12 Coun. Joscelyne Landry-Altmann told Sudbury.com after Tuesday’s meeting, adding that certain things delayed the report, including an election.

This “lack of teeth” has also been a longstanding explanation by municipal staff and elected officials for the old Paris Street hospital’s longstanding and ongoing vacant status. “This is an important topic for all of us,” Lefebvre said, later adding that he’d “like to see this earlier than later.” “ buildings have the potential to negatively affect the value of surrounding properties, detract from future investments, and become a health and safety hazard,” a City of Oshawa municipal report about a vacant building registry notes.

However, if the 100-unit building were torn down more than five years prior to the new build, they’d be on the hook for development charges for all 200 units.

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