Heritage home demolition rules expanded to include commercial buildings, with push for deconstruction over demolition
Developers in Victoria and Metro Vancouver are coming to terms with demolition bylaws that impose pricey recycling incentive deposits and wood-salvage quotas on a broader range of buildings.
“We’re incentivizing developers to make adjustments in their current work processes to divert more material from our landfills,” says Tracey Tobin, climate action and energy officer for Burnaby. “This aligns with our goal to become a zero-waste, carbon-neutral city.” While the city’s bylaw is limited compared with Burnaby’s all-structure bylaw, a 2019 amendment requiring wood-salvage quotas reset the bar for sustainable building removal.
Mr. Tooke, sustainability manager for Victoria, says “the benefits are both environmental and economical, [with potentially] hundreds of thousands of dollars of reclaimed old-growth wood per project” returning to the market. “I like that they create a framework for accountability to ensure people remove buildings in more sustainable ways,” he says. “However, they also create extra cost to a project while we’re trying to address affordability.”
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