People should not be allowed to own two properties when some people can’t afford to own one. Allowing this is akin to saying that some people are inherently better than others and perpetuates wealth inequity. This is only a hard concept to grasp for out-of-touch wealthy people (and you can’t tell me that someone who owns two properties isn’t wealthy), a concept that children grasp instinctually.
Helping people profit off of their empty houses is not a reasonable business case in places where rental housing is in short supply such as in Victoria BC, Vancouver and Toronto.
I dont think that it is something that should be encouraged anywhere. Investors buying up apartments and condos and turning them into ABNB has grossly distorted the long term rental market. Short term rentals certainly have their place. If someone wants to rent our their home while they are on vacation or a spare room (even a suite) to visitors then that makes sense. Buying a 2nd property for the purpose of short term rental is an idea that should be crushed. Investing in traditional rental ownership though has a place and makes sense. Not everyone can afford to buy property and build a house on it, but they still need somewhere to live. Without ABNB distorting that market hopefully prices there would come down out of the stratosphere.
Dally, who works part-time at the public library, says her well is currently 15 feet deep, a fraction of some of her neighbours’ which have a depth of 500 feet.
“We have no idea how deep they will have to drill [to grab water],” she said, adding she’s been quoted up to $35,000 for a new well.
That line is probably more important. Also there’s no guarantee they hit water on the first attempt which would cost even more, people should understand that 35k isn’t even that much depending where you’re trying to drill for water.
Additionally like it mentioned in the article and the last few years by people monitoring ground water it looks like a lot of place are going dry regardless of high deep you drill.
Agreed. There’s a huge difference between a shallow well and a drilled well though; I know one person who had to switch around 15 years ago, for similar reasons, and they had to go down 740 feet to hit water — which turned out to be high in Boron so it wasn’t potable without filtering.
Anything in the tens of feet deep is just capturing ground runoff or is sitting on top of an artesian well. In a drought, that water either doesn’t exist in the first place, or is going to drop significantly lower with less pressure. Depending solely on surface water means your well WILL go dry somewhat regularly.
This person hasn’t lived there very long, and obviously didn’t know this about shallow wells.
Now as you point out, digging a deep well is no guarantee; there’s a high likelihood you’re tapping into the same aquifer as your neighbours, and so all it takes is one person to pump it down, and everyone loses their water for weeks until it fills back up.
Deep wells have the benefit that it takes a multi year drought to impact them significantly—that, or an increase in draw from the community. As long as everyone is being responsible and new wells are limited, a couple of years of drought will only have a minimal effect as the water table generally accumulates water from the surrounding rock, not just water that drained from the surface that year.
Crown prosecutors and defence made a joint submission Wednesday calling for an 18-month conditional sentence, beginning with six months of house arrest and electronic monitoring, followed by a year of probation.
Trevor Ford, telling the three [park commissioners] they would not take part in the transition “as you have chosen not to support the Mayor on the folding in of the Park Board.”
The stick really lost its prominence as a sight when they built the new aquatic center in front of it. Not surprised they don’t want to put the money into maintaining it.
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