The PYB Blog

Addition to my house

The rules and regulations around what you can and cannot build are managed and enforced by the City's Building Department....

Backyard Fence with shared driveway

So it sounds like your neighbour was waiting for the new owners (you) to move in before raising the issue of the newly built fence....

Notice from City Building Department

The notice should also tell you exactly what the infraction is (how "too big" the deck is), what you have to do to remedy it, and how long you have to do it....

Fence Removal

The location of fences is not the City's business in the Greater Toronto Area....

Access Rights

This is a fairly complex situation so I'd like to caveat our response by saying we are surveyors, not lawyers, and our recommendation would be to consult a lawyer on the matter....

Fencing

If the fence is on the neighbour's property then they are technically within their rights to have it moved onto the property line....

How to read a distance on a survey (house)

Measurements of surveys are often in Decimal Feet....

The right of way across your property gives the residents of the building next door the right to pass over a specific portion of your land, as defined in the easement document and survey plan, for the purpose of accessing the street....

Boundary evidence not found

The most common boundary evidence, at least in urban areas, is iron survey bars that surveyors put in the ground to mark the corners of a property boundary....