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[collector2]

Guess I should explain whats going on here too. I own a small apartment building in downtown Moose Jaw that was built in 1912. 8 apartments upstairs, 2 stores on the main floor and the basement (2000 square feet)is my storage. The city, in their infinite wisdom, wants to put a new sports multiplex there, where there is very little parking available, rather than on city property that has adequate parking and is only a 5 min drive away. Most of the people in the city are against it but its looking more and more like council planns to ram it through no matter what anyone else wants. If it goes through they will take the properties for "fair market value" In other words they wont give us anywhere near enough to replace them with. I'm working on getting stuff sorted out and as much as possible put in my garage as, if and when it goes through, we may not be given much time to do this and I dont want to loose stuff just because there was no place to put it. Maybe thats a bit alarmist but I really dont want to be caught at the last minute. The other problem being, the building is also my income, so I dont know what I'll do about that.

In a nut shell thats where I stand - screwed by the city again - lol (and they didnt even buy me supper first)

 

[volvoguy87]

Historic apartment building?

I don't know how historic preservation works in Canadian provinces and localities, but you may be able to help your situation by getting your 1912 apartment building designated a historic building. In the US, there are any number of rules and regulations that can be used to qualify a building as historic, one of which makes most buildings over 50 years old eligible.

Historic listing might be worth a shot,
Dave

 

[collector2]

LOL - Problem is historical designation is done through city council here and they wouldnt put it on a property that they are looking to demolish. Thanks for the idea though (I was on that committee for 5 years) Historical Designation also severly limits what you can do with the building.

 

[petek]

Well that sucks. It's not like they have a glut of original old buildings there to go knocking any down and putting up some modern monstrosity.