My problem is when one by-law officer is capable of making a non-quantifiable statement and we as property owners and taxpayers have no recourse to refute what is stated. My neighbour was being harassed by her neighbour on the other side because her dogs peed and pooped in the same area of her lawn and that other neighbour didn't like that she could see the defecation. A complaint was filed and the bylaw officer said he could "smell" an odour from the street and told her she had to stop letting the dogs use her own yard as a litter box and that she had to remedy the smell. When I was told what was said, I went to the foot of her driveway and I could smell nothing. There was a slight smell when standing right next to the area, but nothing that would irritate any neighbour on either side. Yet, how do you refute what the officer stated? He acted like he was god and his word was law.
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