@kiwipaul said:
Surely if owners make changes without approval which results in costs to the OC at a later date the lot owner (who did the alteration) is liable for all costs to repair the damage anyway so you don’t need an expensive bylaw to state the obvious (you already have one that restricts owners from damaging common property in most bylaws).
That’s true if the owner is still there when the damage or alterations become evident. But if the renovating owner sells and the new owner doesn’t become aware until later that common property has been altered, then the repair and maintenance of the altered common property falls back on the Owners Corp – that’s why you need watertight by-laws that leave a paper trail of changes.