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Sad that the older golden thai 103/105 Church has been for lease all these years.
 
thaivic said:
The ones that allow this to happen over and over.
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The City is obliged to issue Utility Cut Permits to utility companies, it is NOT their fault the cut was made. In this case, of course Toronto Hydro (whose cut it is) should have done their work first but I bet the developers wanted to finish off the sidewalk outside their new building so that the building 'looked finished' and they had met their obligations to the City (developers usually are obliged to replace sidewalks along new constriction) and Hydro were not yet ready to do their work. (They are doing a lot more utility work in that area).

The City DOES have a responsibility to ensure that utility cut permits are properly closed (after permanent repairs are finished) and HERE they are NOT good - the Utility Cut data base on City website has 88,644 permits on it at the moment!! The City are VERY poor at repairing cuts (for which the utility is charged) or for making utilities permanently repair their own cuts (which is now more common): Rogers made a large cut on Front Street near my home in December 2017, the temporary repair is not in bad shape but it still has not been permanently repaired!
 
DSCToronto said:
The City is obliged to issue Utility Cut Permits to utility companies, it is NOT their fault the cut was made. In this case, of course Toronto Hydro (whose cut it is) should have done their work first but I bet the developers wanted to finish off the sidewalk outside their new building so that the building 'looked finished' and they had met their obligations to the City (developers usually are obliged to replace sidewalks along new constriction) and Hydro were not yet ready to do their work. (They are doing a lot more utility work in that area).

The City DOES have a responsibility to ensure that utility cut permits are properly closed (after permanent repairs are finished) and HERE they are NOT good - the Utility Cut data base on City website has 88,644 permits on it at the moment!! The City are VERY poor at repairing cuts (for which the utility is charged) or for making utilities permanently repair their own cuts (which is now more common): Rogers made a large cut on Front Street near my home in December 2017, the temporary repair is not in bad shape but it still has not been permanently repaired!
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This is new construction so there is no excuses for this to happen over and over, it seems to happen on most projects.
Toronto Hydro is owned by the city, IMO there is no excuse for this, the city has the power to make sure the required services are in place before completion and not after completion.
I travel to many cities in Asia and Europe and i don't recall seeing this.
This even happened at The Well after the stone was installed.
 
DSCToronto said:
The City is obliged to issue Utility Cut Permits to utility companies, it is NOT their fault the cut was made. In this case, of course Toronto Hydro (whose cut it is) should have done their work first but I bet the developers wanted to finish off the sidewalk outside their new building so that the building 'looked finished' and they had met their obligations to the City (developers usually are obliged to replace sidewalks along new constriction) and Hydro were not yet ready to do their work. (They are doing a lot more utility work in that area).

The City DOES have a responsibility to ensure that utility cut permits are properly closed (after permanent repairs are finished) and HERE they are NOT good - the Utility Cut data base on City website has 88,644 permits on it at the moment!! The City are VERY poor at repairing cuts (for which the utility is charged) or for making utilities permanently repair their own cuts (which is now more common): Rogers made a large cut on Front Street near my home in December 2017, the temporary repair is not in bad shape but it still has not been permanently repaired!
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Maybe the simpler solution is to move to a system where the utilities are always responsible for repairing the sidewalk to the original state within x days, subjected to acceptance by the city for the work performed. The city should not be responsible for initiating and managing repairs ever for utility cuts.

AoD
 
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