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FLOOD OF APPLICATIONS EXPECTED

Deadline looms for
suite registration

THE APRIL 30 deadline is fast approaching for illegal guite
owners to register their suites with the District of North

Vancouver.

IHegal. suite owners who fail to
register with the municipality by
the date will face district closure of '
. suites upon complaint.

District chief building inspector
Einar Carlson expects a flood of
applications this week as the

’ deadline looms closer.

The district has received over .
600 applications to date, with the
bulk of them coming in before the
end of March. As an enticement to
come, forward, the district waived
a $200 municipal suite inspection

“ fee to residents who applied before
~ April. a

Said Carlson: “We weren’L sure

. what the response was going to be.’.

We are sure there will be a rush.at

“the end .of the month, particularly

‘from people who. are having

Carlson said the inspection pro-
cess is not intended to bea pains-
taking procedure. “The intent i is to
give a temporary j/elaxation.
Council wants to be assured that a
suite is a safe and healthy place to
live. We. want:to be/assured that
nobody’ has been stuffed into a
hovel. We're not going in after the
fact with a detailed inspection,"’
Carlson said. i

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COUNCIL ‘ASSURED

Local engineey Frank Yazdani,
of Buicki Construction.Inc., began

inspecting illegal” suites for regis-.:

tration a few weeks ago. Yazdani

: charges $150 for an inspection. He’

7 em es sites be 3 inspee ed’

‘for,
“ gas’
ard: ecttieal a and; other)

‘

regulations as applicable

iv on g008 or have

has hired a civil cngincer to help
do the job. |

not boing. to the
“ bedaluse , they are,

they’ are getting inspections fi rst,”

ays (Yaedani suid,
who plan’ to egister can \',:
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pon": ‘application, second Suites
fae ‘amily. homes ” ‘ar

of) illegal Suites if ;

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spaces,
Carison said the district: charges
a $25 registration fee and water
and sewer charges for an addi-
tional residential unit. This year’ 5
tate is $132. 38.

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