Whistler appears to have this system where a building permit is only given if you blast your 1 acre wooded lot in the boonies and have all your trees that the environment guy approves removed carted away at cost.

They get hot under the collar if you don't blast and use the trees to build your house. As well, you have to use construction cement rather than mix with the high ferrous rock left over from blasting, which is cheaper.

All in all, construction is $55,000 more expensive per unit when Whistler approves your application.

Maybe someone figures that Whistler is reaching maximum density and has decided that making development easy and/or cheap is no longer a priority??

no, it has been like this for 40 years!!!!

i bet the RCMP get kickbacks for killing bears!

don't expect any sympathy whatsoever if you're "stuck" with property up in Whistler!!!

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i don't have sympathy for anyone who owns property, but only lives there 3 months out of the year, and does not put their property in the local rental pool.

i have the least sympathy for people who never lived in their $5 million + investment property, but have it inside a gated compound with one or two guards from Sea2Sky Security keeping a watchful eye on it as it gains value on the market, and are not the original owners cos it has been flipped so many times nobody knows that it's the brown bears' territory but are grumbling that the bears have broken into the place due to the slovenliness of the current renters, who aren't living there at workers' residence rates.

even if you own a high priced property and pay taxes, then you should pay more to move that bear rather than letting the cops humanely execute them by injection.

in short, renters that pay a lot of $$$ should pay more rent so that the owners can afford to move bears out of the gated community. Plus, the renters should be sent to bears 101 to learn how not to invite bears into their homes due to their garbage.

i also endorse a pro-squatters bylaw that does not criminalize overgrowing the investment property for almost free homesteading by the tiny homeless population of Whistler, which numbers about 50.

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