I hate your monstrosity of a house. The public wharf used to be a nice place to sit before you blocked the view and made us all feel like we were somehow putting YOU off.
Obviously you realize nobody is impressed judging by the number of surveillance cameras trained on the public land surrounding the property.
Could you have come up with a more anti-social design for your castle? —Nonspecific enough?
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If I had something worth owning in this city I wouldn’t just have CC cameras. I’d have electrified razor wire, attack dogs and ex-Israeli commandos working security.
and the dogs would shoot bees out of their mouths…lovin the frequent avatar changes admiral. mornin rawk
Forgot about the bees PG.>; ) And a good morning Rawk back at ya. A pic of R. Lee Ermey giving the finger is just too cool to resist.
How are you bearing up now that the nestling has taken wing?
the bear and the boy are flying out this weekend, shipping stuff ahead. they managed to find a roach/bedbug free room…taught him how to cook thai noodles last night. calm rawk
That’s going to put him head and shoulders above his fellow nest leavers, who think that putting a Reese’s peanut butter cup on a bowl of ramen creates an authentic Thai experience.
I need to comment because I love this dock. This man used to get angry at me when my friends and I would throw rocks into the Arm by his property. He owns the land twenty feet into the water or something.
they probly could have, but i think citadel hill is taken.
nice new pic of the wee bairn lifey…merci
yep, taken this a.m., he decided that grampies arm was too bare and needed to give me some touches, and i am deffinately not complaining
I’d unleash the mechanical Richard Simmons on any ne’er do wells.
smithers, release the hounds.
I think I know which house/mansion you’re talking about.
I know of the owner and he “Bought” his building permit.
If you notice, he’s within 6ft of his neighbour’s balcony, not adjacent, but actually blocking half of their view of the water. Obviously they didn’t agree to it but he “Bought” the building permit. The house is worth $14,000,000. I worked with the person who did the landscape design. Aside from the house being ugly, it’s completely out of place. And the owner is a jackass!
if I could afford a 14 MM house, I’d likely be a jackass too….
Why on earth do you need a 14 million dollar house … maintenance on that alone is enough to drive you nuts. Even if you can afford it doesn’t mean you have to buy/build it. He coulda made a nice 3-4 million dollar house and put the rest in the bank. Well, that’s what I’d do, lol.
I’m surprised at some of the construction that people can get away with on their lots these days. Here in downtown Dartmouth, especially on lots with a decent harbour view, there are more and more of these super-narrow (like one room narrow) 3-5 storey apartment buildings and houses being jammed into small properties, effectively destroying the viewplanes of some neighbours and sometimes putting adjacent properties in shade for the best part of the daylight hours.
One would think that there’d be some kind of legal recourse – I’ve seen some affected properties go on sale scant months after one of these asshole buildings gets finished. It’s got to be doing a number on property values in some cases.
Failing all else, I’d consider midnight expeditions to surreptitiously dump PCBs, dig in copious amounts of Japanese knotweed rhizomes, and hide human bone fragments on such offending properties.
treehouse everytime…you can watch peoples. rooo
This wouldn’t be the house owned by a Mr… hmm how do you do this without using proper names? Well, it begins with an “Arm” and ends with an “Oyan.” Don’t worry though, Tim Bousquet’s probably already written numerous critical articles about him.
q, I think this house is owned by a certain gold baron, but I shudder to think what Mr. A’s house looks like, being the worst purveyor of tasteless sprawling Mcmansions and environmental destruction in Halifax.
Realist, I think you’re referring to a single building on Portland. Downtown Dartmouth is dead and needs more residential development. Small-scale, dense infill like this is exactly what it needs, aside from development of all the empty lots. Also, the term is neighbour’s “views”, not “viewplanes”.
And apparently he’s a tremoundous asshole, too! So I hear…
Like I said in another thread, I find it funny when people still want the city to grow and don’t want to see more sprawl, but don’t like intensified infill development or taller, higher density buildings with smaller units, either. Uhh where are we supposed to go, geniuses? Underground? It’s so much easier and cheaper to build on greenfield sites, yet infill brownfield development remains costlier, generally takes longer to get approved, and has more community opposition and environmental issues on the site with contaminated soils and whatnot. Can’t win!
^ agreed 100%. Sad article in the Herald today about council passing a new bylaw to create “minimum lot sizes” in the south end to combat the “threat of infilling”. Completely undermines the goals of HRMbyDesign to repopulate the peninsula…bunch of idiots running the show here
Buut on the bright side there was also a good piece by Bernie Smith on the hurdles the city imposes on those trying to build downtown
Calvin, I’ll go with “views” instead of “viewplanes”, sure. I tried that first and it didn’t sound quite right – let’s go with “some neighbours’ views”.
I know the building you’re talking about but I wasn’t thinking about that one; I agree that it is a useful little development. I was thinking more of various new houses scattered here and there on the seaward side of the main drumlin ridges. There are a couple of examples in Woodside. You can quibble about what’s considered to be “downtown” Dartmouth – I’ve lived inside the Circ since the mid-60’s and these days, assuming Dartmouth has a downtown at all, I think we can agree that downtown extends a bit further than Victoria Road.
I might add, based on comments by Calvin and qpmzwonxeibcruv, that I’m personally all for denser peninsular (and in Dartmouth, at a minimum inside the Circumferential but also in various other spots like Woodlawn) development. But I’m for multi-unit buildings, whether they be apartments or condos. I like the King’s Landing project, on balance, and I like the old Greenvale school re-development, for example. More the merrier.
I am just not enthused about infilling, not when it means jamming in single-family-unit houses. My whole point is that we aren’t moving in the right direction for proper urban densities until we get away from the single-family-unit house fixation; infilling taken to its absurd conclusion means one huge moderate-density suburb.
I believe if you check NS Laws one can only “own” the land up to the high tide mark so the water is public property as is the warf. So by all means feel free to stand on wet sand at low tide or sit in a dingy, boat, raft right in front of the house! Should be good for a bit of shit disturbing amuzement!