{"id":130,"date":"2014-10-16T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-10-16T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T01:25:16","slug":"coach-house-bylaw-gets-first-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/coach-house-bylaw-gets-first-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach house bylaw gets first reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Coach-Laneway-House-Vancouver_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Coach-Laneway-House-Vancouver_1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Coach-Laneway-House-Vancouver_1\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Coach-Laneway-House-Vancouver_1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Coach-Laneway-House-Vancouver_1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Coach-Laneway-House-Vancouver_1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">One more North Shore municipality may be going coach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The District of North Vancouver may ease up on the regulations governing coach houses after a bylaw governing detached dwellings breezed through first reading Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Council&#8217;s unanimous vote means the coach house bylaw will head to a public hearing, tentatively scheduled for Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The importance of giving something first reading cannot be understated,&#8221; said Coun. Alan Nixon, who added he&#8217;s waited a long time to see coach houses get to the &#8220;starting line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The district should expect between five and 25 coach house applications each year, according to a staff report. Those numbers may be conservative, according to Nixon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I know that staff are not predicting that there will be an onslaught of applications, but quite frankly I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised because I think there is a pent-up demand for this alternative type of housing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Approximately 85 per cent of district residents supported consideration of coach houses, according to a district survey carried out earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Under current bylaws, property owners can apply to build a coach house but must go through a &#8220;potentially expensive, lengthy and uncertain process,&#8221; according to a district staff report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The new bylaw would expand the definition of secondary suites to include coach houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Any homeowner keen to investigate a coach house should be aware of the costs, which could include expenses like an extra sewerage connection, according to Coun. Mike Little.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/news\/coach-house-bylaw-gets-first-reading-1.1421835#sthash.mGkpzgVG.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/news\/coach-house-bylaw-gets-first-reading-1.1421835#sthash.mGkpzgVG.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more North Shore municipality may be going coach. 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