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Stop the Degradation of East Barrie Neighbourhoods by Absentee Landlord Rental/Boarding Houses

Houses owned by absentee landlords are increasing in East Barrie and are impacting existing family homes in the East End. There are too many dilapidated properties, overcrowded rentals, and poorly managed boarding houses in this area resulting in noise issues, parking problems and a reduced quality of life for surrounding residents.

Quickly pass bylaws to regulate and license absentee landlords, prevent the further proliferation of boarding houses and to pro-actively enforce parking, zoning and property standard bylaws.

As an alternative to boarding houses, encourage the development of bona fide (student) residences in more suitable locations near Georgian College ie: Bell Farm Road, on the college campus etc....

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completed  ·  AdminCity of Barrie (Admin, City of Barrie) responded  · 

The 2022 Budget was approved by Council on Monday, December 6. It includes funding for four additional by-law enforcement officers. This will allow for additional hours of service to respond to yard maintenance issues, public parking issues, nuisance matters etc. Response levels and the achievement of timely response will be improved, and hours of service will be increased.

As outlined in our previously posted update, consideration of this funding was undertaken in place of an amendment to the Business Licensing By-law 2006-266 re a pilot project that would require absentee landlords to obtain a business licence. Watch the related discussion that took place at the October 25 City Council meeting: https://youtu.be/emr_TE69FbA?t=1200

To report by-law violations please call (705) 739-4241 at the time of occurrence. You may need to leave a message—Enforcement Services staff retrieve messages from this number 7 days/week, 7:30am–11pm from April through November and 24/7 from December through March. (Outside of these hours, please call the Barrie Police non-emergency line to report infractions at time of occurrence: 705-725-7025.)

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    The landlords I am worried about are not in it to fill a gap in supply of student housing . 100% in it for profit . With no priority to be ‘sensitive’ to the neighborhood. I don’t want a ******* with 9 parked cars across from my house where once there was a sweet single family dwelling.
    This is not the answer to meeting rental needs.
    It will happen, greed happens. I love progress and growth, but not this
    Carla Ritchie

  • Lisa commented  ·   ·  Report

    I wish there was a way to vote AGAINST this. I am an East end tenant & I love our mixed neighbourhood. I see many students walking, cycling & bussing; I appreciate that their use of alternate transportation inspires investment in infrastructure for our area, and it's one of the reasons I chose to live here. Owner occupiers can also have many residents & visitors, and yard maintenance that doesn't meet with their neighbour's approval. Please don't make sweeping assumptions about tenants and landlords, and thereby discourage rental housing options in a market where rentals are already prohibitively expensive.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any help would be so wonderful.. Enough parking spaces for cars that live there WITHOUT parking on lawns, a check on absentee landlords that don't take care of the legal houses, getting rid of illegal houses, some garbage rules, and fairly neat lawns would certainly get this neighbourhood back to looking good. and bring the quality of life back for everyone.

  • Scott Harradine commented  ·   ·  Report

    Have been totally frustrated and let down by the city on this issue for years. Other than licensing these business houses, they ARE businesses, we don’t need more bylaws, we need enforcement!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    welcome to "garden suites". more cars, an eyesore. takes up nearly the entire yard. can you imagine if everyone did this?

  • JOHN REID commented  ·   ·  Report

    CHECK OUT 108 NELSON. PLUS BACK YARD

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    We bought in the East end of Barrie almost 7 years ago because of its charm, beauty and family oriented feel. Sadly, we are seeing the "Georgian College Residence" slowly creep down toward the lake. I'm not against renting, but dividing these small East End homes, that were never designed to as two family homes or student rentals MUST STOP. The limited parking and lack of up keep hurts all of us that have pride of ownership in our homes and area. Not to mention the taxes.

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