Saint John says backyard pirate ship must go

Structure does look dumpy and not of great construction when you look at picutres on page 100 here http://www.saintjohn.ca/site/media/Sain ... -02-14.pdf . But when you Google Street View 32 Midwood Saint John New Brunswick you can't really see it from the street, however the house itself is a sight for sore eyes.

I belive in the fact it is the guys own property but I also believe there has to be some sort of community standards in place.

It was built without a permit, down it comes.
And yes, a city can even make you paint your house. There was a house in Detroit many moons ago that the owners painted a ghastly mosaic of colours. I mean it really was an eyesore. And that's sayin' a LOT in Detroit
After several complaints from people in the neighbourhood, especially on that block, the city ordered them to repaint it.

If you don't want to play by the rules and obtain the proper permits and build to code then tough shit. Just because it's cute doesn't mean you can piss on the rules that everyone else follows.

If cities enforced some of their bylaws on the books there would be quite the outrage. Here in Winnipeg there are bylaws concerning the minimum size of your closet space and kitchen cupboard sizes. I can see enforcing how you let your house fall into disarray or aweful colours but stay out of my bedroom. If I don't want a closet that's my business.

I think such regulations are on the books so that tenants have legal recourse if a landlord tries not to provide such basic amenities as reasonable storage space for clothing and food.

Good point

There was some cat in El Dorado Hills in a gated neighborhood where they have some Nazi homeowner's association (HOA) that told some guy he had to paint his yellow house an 'approved color' if he wanted to re-roof the house. Seems they didn't say a thing when the original owner painted it yellow. So the new owner asked what colors were acceptable and the HOA gave him a list of some 20 colors.

He painted the house in in all 20 approved colors. When the HOA sued him he won when the judge said that the 20 colors were approved and there was nothing saying how many colors he could use or how they had to be applied.

Consequently, the house got the new roof and the homeowner repainted the house the same shade of yellow it had been when he'd bought it.

In this case, the owner with his 'pirate ship' is in the wrong and needs to bring it down.

There was some cat in El Dorado Hills in a gated neighborhood where they have some Nazi homeowner's association (HOA) that told some guy he had to paint his yellow house an 'approved color' if he wanted to re-roof the house. Seems they didn't say a thing when the original owner painted it yellow. So the new owner asked what colors were acceptable and the HOA gave him a list of some 20 colors.

He painted the house in in all 20 approved colors. When the HOA sued him he won when the judge said that the 20 colors were approved and there was nothing saying how many colors he could use or how they had to be applied.

Consequently, the house got the new roof and the homeowner repainted the house the same shade of yellow it had been when he'd bought it.


that's classic.

I think such regulations are on the books so that tenants have legal recourse if a landlord tries not to provide such basic amenities as reasonable storage space for clothing and food.
But if you are not a tenant, or a landlord, but a home owner, you should be able to determine yourself how small you want your cupboards and whether you want a closet somewhere.
The only thing you would have to deal with is when you sell, if you can find a buyer who wants it the way you have it done.
It doesn't sound like a potential danger, to not have closet space.

If you are ever board, really board, read through your community standards bylaws, there is likely a lot of WTF? moments in there. Even better if some have not been taken off the books since the advent of the car.