06-08-2015, 09:18 PM
(06-08-2015, 09:09 PM)BuildingScout Wrote:(06-08-2015, 09:03 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Oh yes, I remember him from the 80s. He was the landlord not to have -- and this is back when there were a lot of bad landlords, and a lot of crappy student housing.
Of course, because proper student housing would create a student ghetto, whereas dingy basements and crappy student houses were so much preferable. City planners eventually got it, but boy, did it ever take time for them to clue in (in fact, I bet they never did: the old guard retired and the newer ones were more enlightened).
I recall that the bylaw to require fire exits from the basement apartments did get put into place in the late 80s. But, yes, proper zoning took far longer.