Unfortunately, creating more housing by retention and inclusion of infill housing, basement suites, laneway housing, or triplexing, is a process which only the very strong willed and deep pocketed can accomplish, while navigating the bizarre and often ridiculous world of the building code, planners, plan checkers, and the most powerful, building inspectors. Once you dip your toe in, it's a slow drowning into the ever changing, never defining, constantly moving quagmire that will consume your sanity and make you wish you had never started.
Unfortunately, creating more housing by retention and inclusion of infill housing, basement suites, laneway housing, or triplexing, is a process which only the very strong willed and deep pocketed can accomplish, while navigating the bizarre and often ridiculous world of the building code, planners, plan checkers, and the most powerful, building inspectors. Once you dip your toe in, it's a slow drowning into the ever changing, never defining, constantly moving quagmire that will consume your sanity and make you wish you had never started.
You are describing the now. Several TEAM folks (including me) know how to fix what you describe and TEAM’s platform pledges to do so