@JimmyT said:
There’s clearly a need, however, for a quick, cheap and simple way of allowing renovations without having to re-write by-laws from scratch every time.
Agreed.
But if your example of re-tiling was done in OP complex these lot owners would have been up for a bill of $2,000 to have the bylaws amended which is excessive I believe.
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).
A cheaper solution would be to collect all these approvals (duly voted on) and once you have 10 then add these to the bylaws as the cost to change the bylaws is the same whether 1 is added or 10 (assuming you don’t require someone to draft them as well).