Share your feedback on the
City’s Property Standards By-law online on Connect Oshawa!
Learn about what the Property Standards By-law is before completing the survey:
What is the Property Standards By-law?
The Property Standards By-law establishes minimum
standards for the maintenance and occupancy of property within the City of
Oshawa. The appearance of buildings are not typically taken into consideration
when dealing with property standards.
The Property Standards By-law currently addresses the
following areas:
·
Property Maintenance, Waste Management, and
Accessory Buildings or Structures, including:
Share your feedback on the
City’s Property Standards By-law online on Connect Oshawa!
Learn about what the Property Standards By-law is before completing the survey:
What is the Property Standards By-law?
The Property Standards By-law establishes minimum
standards for the maintenance and occupancy of property within the City of
Oshawa. The appearance of buildings are not typically taken into consideration
when dealing with property standards.
The Property Standards By-law currently addresses the
following areas:
·
Property Maintenance, Waste Management, and
Accessory Buildings or Structures, including:
- Property
- Sewage and drainage
- Compost heaps
- Refuse storage and disposal
- Gantries and antennas
- Accessory building, fences and retaining walls
- Surface conditions (parking areas and walkways)
- Swimming pools, hot tubs and ponds
- Hoarding
·
Building Standards, including:
- Structural soundness
- Building envelope
- Exterior walls and attachments
- Roofs and roof structures
- Doors, windows and skylights
- Pest control
- Artificial lighting
- Interior walls, ceilings and floors
- Common areas
- Recreational facilities
- Underground parking garages
-
Verandahs, porches,
decks, loading docks, balconies, stairs, guards and handrails
·
Standards for Residential Occupancy, including:
- Minimum standards required for human habitation
- Minimum floor to ceiling height for habitable rooms
- Kitchen facilities
- Minimum required floor area for dwelling units
- Minimum required floor area for lodging units
- Toilet and washroom facilities Ventilation
-
Natural and artificial
lighting
·
Standards for Building Services, Systems and
Facilities, including:
- Plumbing and drainage systems
- Electrical service
- Fire escapes
- Heating, ventilation and mechanical systems
- Emergency contact in apartment buildings
- Elevating devices
-
Disconnected utilities
- Building security/access
voice communications
Feedback will be received
until 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 24. Feedback received will be considered
in the development of proposed amendments to the City’s Property Standards
By-law.