Voting on own motion

I'm pretty sure that it's legal to vote but it's customary to exclude yourself from the actual vote after you have made your case to the committee.  However, a bit of schmoozing with the other committee members beforehand wouldn't go amiss.

I suspect the by-law already exists – Andrew just wanted to know if he can vote in favour of his application at the EC meeting.

On the question of allowing pets for owners but not tenants, this is a bit discriminatory – you can't treat one lot of residents differently from others.

however, most buildings insist that tenants have the written permission of their landlords to have pets (which is often harder to get than permission from the EC).  And most tenancy agreements either forbid pets or, similarly, demand written permission before pets are allowed.

Also, tenants and their pets are bound by exactly the same by-laws as owners so there's really no reason to discriminate – I've know tenants with and without pets who strictly abide by the by-laws and owners who don't even read them becasue they don't think they should have to live under any rules.

The big difference with tenants is that if they breach your by-laws, they are also automatically in breach of their tenancy agreements and could be evicted.  If only the same were true of some owners.