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We have a new owner in our strata scheme who is very enthusiastic about throwing themselves into a number of renovations to their townhouse, but they were unaware that renovations aren’t so simple in a strata scheme. 

According to our Strata Manager, several items on their list require special by-laws – renovating bathroom (including tiles etc that can effect waterproofing), adding internal wall, adding shower to laundry and adding a pergola. Can they get a special by-law prepared to cover all of these items in one, or does each one need a separate by-law? 

Have others found any other ways to streamline this process for this situation?

I realise we need the bylaws in place (even though sometimes they seem counterintuitive), largely to protect Strata from extra responsibilities and expenses. But would be good to make things as simple as possible to do the right thing.

I am pretty sure others here have done some of those renovations and we don’t have related special by-laws, and we have had two cases where special by-laws had to be passed after the finished work. If it is too complicated to do the right thing I fear there will be more owners just going ahead and doing renovations without approval and realistically there will be nothing we can do about it. (I know we can get orders to remove or alter the works, but realistically I don’t think enough of our owners would have the motivation to vote for that).

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