Mackenzie Jackson
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 72 Ave, Surrey, BC V3W 2M8
September 30, 2019
City Clerk's Office
3rd Floor, City Hall
453 West 12th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1V4
Dear Clerk,
Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Act, please provide me with:
The number of ‘work without permit’ penalties of each year
between January, 1st 2010 to current.
If there are problems releasing some portions of the
documents requested, please do
not withhold release of all the documents, but instead
forward those you can release.
To avoid photocopying fees, you may provide me these records
in PDF format -- either
via email or on CD.
Please advise me when the material is available for release
Regards,
Mackenzie Jackson
The reason I wanted to request this information is there is currently a huge backlog problem at the City of Vancouver Planning Department. I am an Interior Designer and my firm submits for building permits with every project. These permits that should take weeks to get turns into months. And for clients who are paying such high rent, from them to wait many months means they could lose their business. So I have personally wittnesses clients choosing to take the penalty of working without the permit because it costs less than waiting and paying more rent. The FOI will recover what is being caught by the COV, but there would be more to uncover about the sites who do not get caught and fined.
The reason I wanted to request this information is there is currently a huge backlog problem at the City of Vancouver Planning Department. I am an Interior Designer and my firm submits for building permits with every project. These permits that should take weeks to get turns into months. And for clients who are paying such high rent, from them to wait many months means they could lose their business. So I have personally wittnesses clients choosing to take the penalty of working without the permit because it costs less than waiting and paying more rent. The FOI will recover what is being caught by the COV, but there would be more to uncover about the sites who do not get caught and fined.
