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Originally Posted by Bigtime
If only the province gave the municipalities a steady, consistent amount of funding (hmm hasn't someone been advocating for that since they got into office?) so that things like flood mitigation and prevention could have been done all along.
Maybe I am just grumpy this morning but if I lose an entire developable level of my house I sure as heck expect a good drop on my assessed value and taxes I pay. Or will the city have to look at our area and relax the height restrictions by another floor so we can build a true 3 up plus the house on stilts or piers?
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Building a house on stilts is probably the most expensive, and time consuming fix available. It would also look stupid as unlike homes in Miami which I have been too, we are not actually on the water. However, It probably is also the best one.
Everyone had sewer backup, and the back flow valves and sump pumps saved no one. So really unless they want us to do something extreme like jack every house 5 feet in the air, fixing the sewers is the only other good way IMO to fix this mess. The rest is just window dressing the real issue which is pretty apparent with what they have announced so far.