All of our dawdling on the garage/carport meant that we have spent the fall and winter scraping or squeegee’ing our car’s windows on a daily basis, getting soggy unloading groceries, and suffering from nasties like destroying a tire (thanks to running over the metal bracket remaining from one of the carport’s beams).  But on the upside, our procrastination means that Laneway Housing is now in a pilot phase.  Sure, that kind of renders our exorbitant carport permit kind of useless, but imagining a wee house in place of our ramshackle garage and concrete monostrosity of a parking pad seems a lot more…desirable.  Media stories have been quoting $150k as the estimated figure for replacing/converting a garage into 600 sq.ft. living quarters, which sounds rather ridiculous (one can only hope that was the pre-”the economy is falling!” quote).  Zoning changes apparently TBD, and the info available about permits seems to be rather sparse for the time being.

So, we’ll probably continue to procrastinate…err, strategically wait.

More laneway info here.

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