INTER OFFICE MEMO

Vince Borch DATE: December 4th, 1972

Nick Chernoff CeCe

Re: Moving of Scott house onto Carlisle Street

I have no dates on record as to the various discussions I had regarding
the Scott house. Mr. Scott made an application to move his house onto Carlisle
Street; within two days of application, I told Scott that he would be unable to
move the house to the new location because it didn't meet the Building By-law
standards. I explained in detail the reasons for refusal but he was still very
disturbed as he told me that no one had advised him that he needed a permit to
move the house. Next hé went to Council to obtain their approval for the permit,
this was on Monday, September 18th, 1972. On Tuesday morning he came to my
office for the requirements for a building permit. I asked him for plans and the
Council requirements, to which he agreed. Approximately a week and a half later
he brought in his plans and on the following Monday I took them to Council.
Council «:proved the plans for permit, on October 2nd, as the new plans met Council
requirements and the Bywlawe

The following Tuesday I issued Mr. Scott a permit. However, he never
did take the permit out, as when he went into costing the work out, he realized it
was too expensive to move the dwelling. He then came back to me saying that he
would like to move the house but do very little work to it, like leaving the
windows as is and doing no work on the roof, etc. I advised him that work should
be done'as on the plans as Council had only approved the move subject to the
house being brought up to standards and the plans that had been submitted met the
By-law standards. I state that at no time did I require any changes in the
structure but told him to follow the By-lawe I mentioned that the roof and plumb~
ing were faulty, also a few other things like stucco and broken windows; I was
suspicious of the roof being rotten as there was no attic ventilation and when I
walked on it you could feel severe deflection and the noise associated with rot.

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Mr. Scott agreed to everything as he said all the points were valid
that I had brought up regarding the house. He then concluded with "I suppose I
better burn it down'' and that was the end of our on site meeting. I left the site
and did not see Mr. Scott again.

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