"Death of The Hunt Camp" - Featured in the Nov 2017 issue of The Landowner Magazine

dakotamar said:
they have to be invited onto my page to see that. locked for only friends...

big camo net or earth tones on the roof it is...
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And do you control everything that your friends and acquaintances post too? I don't belong to any social media, but if I told you my name, you could easily find pics and info on my work, home, and lifestyle.

You can't hide, but there's always loopholes. Put buildings on skids. Build on trailer frames. Look at zoning, maybe it's a place of business or a farm building.
They make the rules, but theres always a way.
 
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I don’t get it. They built a building that requires a building permit.
They call their house or cottage a ‘hunt camp’ and are butt hurt over getting busted and having to pay a few hundred dollars to secure said permit.

Sounds like the building inspector in this case is doing his/her job.
 
Brian46 said:
. I have to disagree here, why can't a hunt camp be a "home"? No need to pretend it is the dark ages just because your are hunting.
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It's a home if you are living there more than anywhere else. Staying in hunting season for a few days or weeks doesn't make it home, even if it is a permanent building with all the amenities of a permanent dwelling, but if it's that, it may be subject to more regulations and taxation than a shack with a woodstove.
 
Disgusting conduct on the part of the Municipality and further confirmation that ALL levels of gov are addicted to tax!
 
coyoteking said:
Put a hitch on one end of the shack and lean a tire against the wall about 3/4 the way down. Call it a travel trailer.
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Actually in many townships in Ontario you can only leave a trailer on the property if there is a " dwelling " , also you cant build an " accessory " building without a dwelling.
Travel trailers cannot be on site more than 3 weeks a year.
Luckily where our camp is there are no such rules, and if they ever did, they'd have to empty our road and most in the area.
 
To the op, if you are able to put the property in another family members name, that's one way out of your problem. Here in Ontario if you purchase a property with building or buildings on it they are yours to keep the bylaws will not effect you. We had to do this very thing, as the Township was brutal to try and build a camp with. So we quickly built, sold to another family member for 100 bucks, building is fine to keep now. There's ways to play their game right back at them. Seems to be a common thing in Ontario, people buying land building cabins and selling the property before the townships figure it out.
 
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in this case the new owner will still be responsible for taxes owing, or the previous owner will be, but that will have to get sorted out before the title changes hands....but the building might be able to stay - which in this case is not the issue if they pay the taxes owing.

Would have been easier to get a permit to start with......
 
Yup the biggest mistake is assuming your mp knew anything

All they do is create legislation they know f.ck all how to administer it , they hire people for that. It also gives them plausible deniability.

Say is there any housing developments going up around there?
Any land being sold?

Hmmmmn
 
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Bigbubba said:
Would have been easier to get a permit to start with......
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That is where the problem lies in this province with many townships. Building permits for hunting camps are not as easy peasy as some may think. Many townships will demand hydro and septic set-up before any permit is issued. And the camp would have to be a certain size according to township by-laws.
 
canadaman30 said:
To the op, if you are able to put the property in another family members name, that's one way out of your problem. Here in Ontario if you purchase a property with building or buildings on it they are yours to keep the bylaws will not effect you. We had to do this very thing, as the Township was brutal to try and build a camp with. So we quickly built, sold to another family member for 100 bucks, building is fine to keep now. There's ways to play their game right back at them. Seems to be a common thing in Ontario, people buying land building cabins and selling the property before the townships figure it out.
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Yep, that’s what my azzhat neighbor did at her place. She had her redneck friends do 3 different additions on her shack without permits over a 5 year period and when she thought later about getting caught, sold it to a boyfriend. When he departed for greener pastures it was sold to her daughter. That solved the no permit issue but now the MPAC is looking at it.
 
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