Those charges were laid for both 282 Ontario St.
Those included failing to keep the property free of unsafe conditions and failing to comply with an order of a bylaw enforcement officer that directed testing, removal and disposal of all waste and the required submission of a valid manifest. A re-inspection in March 2021 found no compliance with the city order, and charges were laid. 27, 2020, the city ordered the owners to remove the waste from the property and dispose of it by Nov. That included “piles of metal, concrete, bricks, soil, wood, other demolition material and other general waste around the entire property.”Ĭsanyi said on Oct. “The inspection revealed waste, which included approximately 31 piles of demolition debris, industrial commercial waste and other general waste scattered around the entire property,” he told the court. 1, 2020, when the city received a complaint there was waste on the west and east sides of the former GM property, at 282 and 285 Ontario St.Ĭity council passed a waste bylaw in August 2020 prohibiting the use of land for storage of waste, refuse and debris.Ĭsanyi said an inspection revealed industrial waste on the property in contravention of the new waste bylaw. The waste bylaw charges go back further, to Oct. The numbered company was fined $20,000 for each of those two charges, adding up to $40,000. They included two charges under the Ontario Building Code Act against each defendant for demolishing an existing smokestack without a permit and failing to comply with an order to comply. The city ordered the property owners to obtain a permit, retroactively, by Feb. An inspection carried out the same day revealed the smokestack was demolished without a permit.
5, 2021, about the demolition of a smokestack at 282 Ontario St. Catharines city prosecutor Sandor Csanyi told the court the planning and building services department received a complaint Feb. While the company was fined, the directors were given suspended sentences in a joint submission. The Megnas were not present and their individual pleas were entered by their lawyer, Pat Nowakowska, in Welland’s virtual provincial offences court Friday. and its directors, Robert Megna and Chiara Joanovits-Megna, entered guilty pleas to six charges each for a total of 18 charges.
That includes a charge for demolishing the landmark smokestack on the property last year.īayshore’s numbered company 2390541 Ontario Inc. Catharines has been ordered to pay a total of $60,000 in fines for building code and waste bylaw violations.
The company that owns the former GM property on Ontario Street in St.
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