[dob467]

Meh. Biggest investment of your life and folks can't be bothered to do the most basic research. Also, as @1Ć0 notes, chutes are pretty rare in Van and the Lower Mainland and everyone gets by.

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Is this literally a pic of the purchase agreement for this building? The lawyer quoted in the article seemed to suggest he was unaware of this stipulation

 

[ProjectEnd]

Is this literally a pic of the purchase agreement for this building? The lawyer quoted in the article seemed to suggest he was unaware of this stipulation

No, it's a public drawing set, submitted to the City during the course of rezoning and available to any who want to download it. It's not going to be in your APS, but the info is out there if you want it.

 

[Bayer]

At the Manulife Centre we have garbage chutes, fortunately. Otherwise we would have to exit the residential building through the mall doors with our garbage and use the parking elevator to P1. However, there are containers for recycling and organic waste in the garbage chute rooms, and staff empty them twice a day (and use the service elevator).

A friend used to own a condo at Mozo and the tri-sorter was always malfunctioning.

 

[gabe]

I've seen rental buildings throughout Toronto with no garbage chutes. You just take your garbage/recycling with you when you're leaving for example. It's like that with organic waste; many buildings built pre 2008ish don't have an option in the chute for it, so you have to take your organic waste to the garbage room yourself. It is quite rare though for a condo in Toronto to not have a chute on each floor.

But it is very common in Vancouver and throughout Europe to not have chutes

My nephew lives in a building in the Vancouver area with no garbage chuet. They take recycling extremely serious out there. All garbage must be properly sorted in the garbage room. I threw a small cardboard box in the blue bin and my newpew quickly pulled it out and put it in the cardboard bin. He pointed to the warning signs and all the cameras watching people like hawks, making sure everything is properly sorted.

It was a smaller building than Bauhaus, but at least they had three elevators! I can't believe Bauhaus condo's only have two elevators in a 32 story building! What a nightmare it must be some parts of the day lugging trash to the garbage room.

 

[citylights]

My one and only short lived experience with a building that had no garbage chute was not great.
I would say its absence was partly to blame for gross elevators, and spills in common areas.
Perhaps it's commonplace for people in other municipalities to get by without them, but here in Toronto their inclusion in new buildings is resoundingly the norm.
And as such, there's no reason for a developer not to be upfront about excluding it... unless, of course, they think it would reflect badly on their project.

 

[Mihairokov]

We have a garbage chute in our building but it's only meant for garbage. I've no issue taking down my recycling and compost occasionally but I can see how that can be bothersome for the type of person eager to order delivery to their door, for example.

I seem to recall when Artistry Condos opened that residents were exiting the building to put their garbage into a dumpster behind the building. Not sure if that's still the case.