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 March 15th, 2013As part of the committee of adjustment application, it is required that the applicant post a sign about the application for at least 10 days prior to the hearing. My hearing date is March 27, 2013. So I have all the way till March 17 to post the sign, but since I have picked up the sign already, I figure I would just post the sign. So this is the sign that city has provided to me to be posted.
March 12th, 2013So with that large tree at the back preventing me from building a detached garage in the back yard, we have revised our committee of adjustment application. Now we are only asking for 3 variances to the East York zoning by-law 6752.
Here’s the new site plan showing the large tree at the back. We had to add a parking pad in the drawing just to get the building permit because for every proposed new build a parking space must be provided. However, we are not going to use it because my plan was to build a double garage at 157 Chisholm.
March 10th, 2013Over the weekend, I was walking around the neighbourhood and trying to talk to all the close by property owners around 159 Chisholm so that I can explain my committee of adjustment application to them and trying to gather their support. I wasn’t able to get to any of the neighbours to the east of my property (there are 4 of them behind 159 Chisholm and 157 Chisholm). However I was able to talk to neighbours on north and south side of the property as well as to the west side. Thank you Leslie, owner of of 160 Chisholm Avenue and the owner of 162 Chisholm Avenue. Your signature in support of my application is very much appreciated. I still have not heard anything from 161 Chisholm Avenue on whether they have any objection to my application. So hopefully everything will be fine by my hearing date of March 27. March 4th, 2013Three weeks has pasts since February 10th and the tree removal is still not yet completed. Dan Moldovan of Davey Tree Expert informed me that there are some fence parts grown into the tree and they have wrecked a whole chain due to these metal parts inside the tree. So now the work is in the back burner and moving really slow. I still have half a stump on top of the ground and stump grinding of course is still pending since the stump will have to be cut down to the ground level first before the stump can be grounded. The good news of course is of course that I don’t pay until the work is done. And since I’m not in construction phase, I can afford a bit of waiting time. Hopefully this gets resolved before March coming to an end. February 10th, 2013There was a big snow storm on Friday February 8th. There must be a good 30 cm of snow freshly on the ground. So no tree removal work for a while. But before the Friday storm, most of the trees are removed. There’s a little bit of stump left above ground and of course the stump still have to be grounded below ground.
February 6th, 2013So two days later, all the smaller trees in the back yard has been removed. And here’s what’s left of large Manitoba Maple at the back.
February 3rd, 2013The tree removal guys will start their work tomorrow on Tuesday Feb 5th. So on Saturday Feb 2nd, we took the fence that between 157 Chisholm and 159 Chisholm down to make the tree removal easier. So here’s all the trees that we have in the backyard.
February 1st, 2013The initial survey of the site is now completed. Land Survey Group have done a very good job of surveying the site, marked down everything down to the hedges and trees, and taken down both elevation data as well as your typical measurement data. To give you an idea of how comprehensive the survey is, here’s a portion of the survey. In the middle it’s the existing bungalow at 159 Chisholm. Then it also has detailed drawing for 157 Chisholm and 161 Chisholm.
January 31st, 2013I thought I am well versed with most of the building code and zoning bylaws before I designed my dream home. However that’s one thing that I seriously did not research. Urban forestry requirement. So today the bad news simply crashed down on me. I have two large tree and several small tree in the rear of the property. One large tree shared between 159 Chisholm and 157 Chisholm is deemed imminently hazardous and can be removed without a permit. The rest of the smaller trees are smaller than 30cm diameter and therefore not protected by Toronto’s Private Tree By-law. However there is one large (Oak?) tree shared between 159 Chisholm and 161 Chisholm that’s around 120 cm in diameter. And this one is causing me a huge headache.
January 25th, 2013Today I have Dan Moldovan from Davey Tree Expert came over to give me an estimate to remove some of the trees on the property. There’s one large tree (a Manitoba Maple) between 159 Chisholm And 157 Chisholm. That tree had one of it’s branch fell dowon in 2006 crashing right into the house at 157 Chisholm. I think it is an hazardous tree and must be removed no matter what. I also want the rest of the smaller trees removed to clear up space for construction. Don has confirmed that just like what I thought, that Manitoba maple should be deemed imminently hazardous and so no permit is required for removal. Then Don presented me with a very good quote for it. Back in 2006 when the tree branch fell on our house at 157 Chisholm, the insurance company said that it costed $6000 for simply clearing out that fallen branch. Davey in 2012 has quoted me the removal of the tree, removal of the 11 or so smaller trees from both 159 Chisholm and 157 Chisholm, and grinding the stump of the large Manitoba maple to 8-10″ below grade, for a total of just over $3000 + tax. Yes that’s complete removal of a very large tree plus a bunch of smaller trees for about 50% of the cost for simply clear out one of the already fallen branch by an insurance company’s, and the price is quoted more than 6 years later. I don’t know about you, but to me the operation insurance company (Meloche Monnex) is carrying out almost seemed like a scam to me. I guess it is smart of me to never use the body shop recommended by an insurance company for auto insurance claims. |
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