It’s illegal and it must come down.
That was the verdict last week from Delta council for East Ladner homeowners hoping to keep an addition that was built without permission.
Civic politicians considered a rezoning application by Guriqbal and Pinderjit Randhawa and Narinder Atwal to increase the maximum allowable floor area for their house in the 4900-block of 64th Street.
The floor area of 257 square metres (2,767 square feet) only allows for an additional 3.5 square metres (38 square feet) before reaching the maximum house size.
However, in July 2016 a complaint was received at municipal hall about an addition being constructed without a building permit.
The owners were advised the addition exceeded the permitted limit, so they subsequently applied for a rezoning for the greater floor area.
Planning staff recommended council reject the application to allow the illegally constructed addition to remain, stating it would set an undesirable precedent.
When the application came to council a few weeks ago, council voted in favour of referring the matter back to staff to try to work with the property owner one last time.
This time around, council voted to deny the application.
Mayor Lois Jackson agreed that allowing the addition would set a bad precedent.
