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We have a long standing problem with a resident who feeds birds on his balcony, and the excrement fouls the outside of the building. Also, it results in the resident below being unable to use his balcony because of the … well, crap. Birdman has been written to in the past, and the new committee has an Order to Comply in effect, well to no effect. We're about to have the building painted, after 15 years, and don't want his habit to continue. Concensus seems to be that pursuing this with CTTT is pretty futile, so we are looking at putting up a new by-law. Does anyone have an effective bylaw in place for this problem?
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Had the same problem – one nuisance owner attracting flocks of nuisance birds.
We recently updated our by-laws to include this among a raft of regulations:
5 Your Lot
What you must not do
5.2 You must not:
(e) feed wild birds on or from any balcony;
Once that is passed, notices to comply can be issued with reasonable certainty that the CTTT will support them and impose fines where necessary
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Sounds so easy! Thanks a lot. AGM in July to action this.
Birdgirl. This problem is not so uncommon.
We suggest that rather than spending $99.50 (new fee effective 1/07/11) registering a by-law and then having to spend owners corporations funds in imposing the by-law, you may want to put up a “bird scare owl” which will keep away the birds and only cost $40 – CLICK HERE
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the bird-scaring owl might work if it was on his balcony, but I don’t think he would go for that! What is the effcetiveness range of such owl?
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