Toronto Renters Forum
Landlords => Landlords => Akelius => Topic started by: TheDonway on June 30, 2022, 09:23:04 am
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The Donway East Ltd. C/O Compten Management Inc. have closed the garbage at 6 The Donway East.
Notice states,
"Please be advised that the garbage chute will be closed from June 28, 2022 until July 3, 2022 for cleaning and pest control treatment.
During this time please make sure that you dispose of your garbage in the bins provided for you outside of your building.
Any damage caused to the garbage chutes during this time will be charged to the resident responsible.
What about the elderly in the building and the disabled who may have difficulty bringing there garbage to the outside bins.
Furthermore , it was brought to the owners attention that the fencing around the garbage bin outside is in violation of the property standards and municipal code.
One of the wooden fencing has been leaning over substantially waiting to fall for many, many months.
So far no has been hurt.
Considering elderly and disabled may need accommodation with disposing of the garbage, is this not a violation of the OHRC.
WHAT CAN BE SUGGESTED.
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You can file a complaint with the city of toronto, for the fencing and safety issues. Call 311 or e-mail 311@toronto.ca.
About the fact that older or physically disadvantaged people will have difficulty using the garbage, I think that the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal may be able to help. https://tribunalsontario.ca/hrto/ (https://tribunalsontario.ca/hrto/) I don't know how you file a complaint with them, but maybe you can find out how from the website.
Does your building have a tenant association? You could send a letter to your landlord asking them to provide somebody to carry out the trash for people who can't use the temporary garbages.
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Take some pictures and post them online somewhere.
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It's only 5 days! When I read the title of this thread I thought they were closing your chutes permanently!
Landlords have to maintain and spray the garbage chutes regularly, otherwise they're in violation of city by-laws. It's likely that they were ordered to do this work after a city inspection. Would you rather they just did nothing and then your garbage chute stinks and your apartments become filled with bugs?
I live in a 250 apt highrise, they close the chutes several times a year for maintenance and spraying, and over the Christmas holidays when the building staff are off (they rent a giant dumpster during that time). So far nobody has died from carrying their garbage down the elevators to the dumpsters for a few days. And, we have elderly and disabled people here as well. I'm disabled. My apartment is located behind the garbage chute. If they don't spray it I'm the one who gets an apartment full of ants, spiders, flies (they come out of my washroom vent from the chute) and bedbugs.
For five days tenants can either store their trash on their balcony or get a neighbour or the super to help them take it downstairs to the dumpsters. You should be thankful that they're maintaining your garbage chutes instead of leaving them to become bug infested, broken stink holes. I know of buildings where they locked the chutes permanently after the landlord got sick of cleaning up after pigs that abuse the garbage chutes.