Tay ...or Why would a perfectly good waterfront lot be forgotten and left to die

[logon9]

Sorry to revive this, but why would a town continue to tax an unbuildable, worthless lot as if it were the same as the neighbouring lots? Seems counterintuitive. Taxes and assesment on a worthless lot should be lower no? If you owned it, could you not ask for a reevaluation?

[Pfm1011]

could you not ask for a reevaluation?

If you owned it you would have it reassessed to lower the taxes..But since you essentially abandoned the land..you wouldn't bother as you aren't paying the taxes anyways....Its foolish as the taxes pile on the land and exceed the value eventually. If you had reassessed you could have sold the land at a profit to a neighbour,  

Unless land is toxic, it always has some value to someone and despite the fact you cant build, the owners across the street paid alot for waterfront access on the lot beside this

[26.2]

Its back!  428 Robins Pt. only a little more money... $15,646.15.  Maybe it will go this time.  I haven,t checked but I guess that annoying easement has been dealt with.

[new_1]

I am also new to this forum, and found some info.

This lot should comply with ?GENERAL ZONING BY-LAW No. 2000-57?

http://www.tay.township.on.ca/ws_par/groups/public/@pub/@tay/documents/web_content/wspar_017120.pdf

And major town requirement for this lot is ?Construction must comply with S. 4.31, Waterfront Lots, Zoning B-L 2000-57?  which means ?no building or structure shall be located within 15.0 metres of the 178.0 metres G.S.C. elevation adjacent to Georgian Bay?, I just check elevations in that area, and it?s about 160 meters ( see photos attached[/img]) which is way bellow standart, the second major issue is the River going to Georgian Bay throuhg this lot, which creates problem with MNR on that. I found, it?s just good to know.

[ErnestBidder]

  I did talk to one fellow, about 4 years ago, who made a deal wherein he could dump a limited, defined amount of fill, in order to build on the property, but he had to pay an adjoining property owner to remove that same amount of fill from the edge of his large property, thereby not affecting the existing flood plain. It would probably not  fly today, though it would be worth asking.

[new_1]

Thant?s why this ?Perfectly good lot? is not developed for 50 years now ( it?s a flood plain). This one is too risky and the shore line is very bad as well (I checked). I would not let my kids swimming there. 

[DRD]

 I think that you will find the river runs through 450 robins point rd (public land) but some areas of 434 considered "watercoarse"

[DRD]

Was this property forgoten? or did somebody bid?

[worldjohn]

winning bid was 40,750
Im assuming they didnt do their research or they wouldnt have bid that high.
they are in for some surprises
but on the good side the crown lien may be covered by the high bid and the rest will dissappear.
but the easment will not go away
nor will the other issues.