Community Improvement and Enhancement of Property Bylaw

Category: Community Standards

Bylaw Number: 5840

This bylaw is intended to assist the community to maintain a desirable standard of property maintenance.

No property within Delta is allowed to become or remain unsightly. Unsightly describes a property to have one or more of the following characteristics:

• accumulation of filth, discarded materials, rubbish or graffiti;
• fences characterized by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, cracking, leaning, peeling or rusting;
• landscaping that is dead or characterized by uncontrolled growth; and
• grass height in excess of 20 centimetres (8 inches).

Graffiti is not permitted to be placed on a sidewalk, wall, building, fence, sign, or any other structure on or adjacent to a public place within Delta. "Graffiti" means one or more letters, initials, symbols, marks, slogans, designs or drawings, howsoever made, on any sidewalk, wall, building, fence, sign or any other structure or surface, but does not include any of the following:

• a sign, public notice or traffic control mark authorized by the Director of Engineering;
• a sign authorized pursuant to the Municipality's applicable bylaw provisions regulating signs;
• a public notice authorized by a Municipal bylaw or by provincial or federal legislation; and
• in the case of private property, a letter, symbol or mark authorized by the owner or occupant of the property on which the letter, symbol or mark appears.

Rubbish is defined as decaying or non-decaying solid and semi-solid wastes, including but not limited to both combustible and non-combustible wastes, such as paper, trash, refuse, cardboard, waste material, cans, yard clippings, wood, rubber, plastics, glass, bedding, mattresses, crates, rags, barrels, boxes, lumber not neatly piled, scrap iron, tin and other metal, scrap paving material, discarded appliances, discarded furniture, dry vegetation, weeds, dead trees and branches and overgrown vegetation.

Accumulation is defined as water, rubbish or noxious, offensive or unwholesome matter to collect or accumulate on private property.

Discarded materials is defined as substances of little or no apparent economic value, including, but not limited to deteriorated lumber, old newspapers, furniture parts, stoves, sinks, cabinets, household appliances and fixtures, vehicle parts, abandoned, broken or neglected equipment, or the scattered remains of items.

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For more information or questions relating to this bylaw, please e-mail Property Use and Compliance or call (604) 946-3340.

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