There are houses all throughout Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria that still have knob & tube wiring. Asbestos insulation. etc etc Not just houses. Skyscrapers. Hotels.
I don't know much about east Canada, but I have a hard time believing your story. If he is 50km away from the nearest Hamlet, he is not in a 'municipality'.
Seems awfully odd to me. Sounds to me like the cabin is actually located in a formal community.
In BC we have municipalities (pick a word out of the dictionary - township, town, village, hamlet, city, etc) that are defined by specific boundaries and then we have vast regions we call Regional Districts that are on the order of 10's of thousands to 100's of thousands of square kilometers.
Generally speaking in a Regional District you get no services - fire, water, sewer, ambulance, but you are exempt from anything but the most common sense of rules for rural and/or agricultural living.
Seems like he should be grandfathered in, no?
There are houses all throughout Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria that still have knob & tube wiring. Asbestos insulation. etc etc Not just houses. Skyscrapers. Hotels.
I don't know much about east Canada, but I have a hard time believing your story. If he is 50km away from the nearest Hamlet, he is not in a 'municipality'.
Seems awfully odd to me. Sounds to me like the cabin is actually located in a formal community.
In BC we have municipalities (pick a word out of the dictionary - township, town, village, hamlet, city, etc) that are defined by specific boundaries and then we have vast regions we call Regional Districts that are on the order of 10's of thousands to 100's of thousands of square kilometers.
Generally speaking in a Regional District you get no services - fire, water, sewer, ambulance, but you are exempt from anything but the most common sense of rules for rural and/or agricultural living.