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THUNDER BAY – A staff recommendation to reduce setback requirements for backyard homes has been placed on hold by city council after hearing concerns from a local resident.
“We felt if existing garages could be converted, then why would a new build — which would have even more strenuous regulatory requirements from the building code — not be permitted to be built that close?” planner Jillian Fazio told council in a Monday meeting. That included loosening regulations to allow more additional units on most urban lots, with backyard homes one new option.
Staff said while some garages “could work quite well” as converted backyard units, it’s unlikely to be a common move. “I 100 per cent appreciate infill and I think backyard homes are a great idea, but we don’t want to make those lines tighter and tighter, and then start having neighbours complaining,” she said.
“Converting an existing garage because it’s there doesn’t make sense when we have so much land available,” she added. “If somebody wants to put an additional [unit] on, they might want to join it to their existing property, making it into a duplex, putting on another story, or making it into an addition.”“We’re talking a lot, we’re getting really invested in this, but at the end of the day, so far there’s been one,” concluded Coun. Albert Aiello.
“We have had a lot of interest in increasing the number of units in existing houses, specifically I would say from one to two units.”
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