Fisk Avenue resident Mike Riemer may have won a minor victory in an unsightly premise dispute with the city but he will still have to take down two "temporary structures" he's using to store various items in his carport by the end of this month.
The city was forced to pay Riemer $1,000 in damages, under a B.C. Supreme Court ruling, for removing one pile of items stored under a tarpaulin in his carport for failing to determine first if the contents contravened any bylaw.
But acting city bylaw enforcement manager Shaun Baker noted the ruling also said Riemer must still take down the remaining structures, made of wood, pipe and tarpulin and move their contents to a proper storage area by the end of this month. The same goes for building materials Riemer's collected over the years. Anything that Riemer can't store in his house, shed or garage must go, according to the ruling issued Jan. 28, or he'll be in contempt of court.
Riemer must also pay half the city's legal costs, an estimated $8,500 bill.
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