How does that saying go, stupid is as stupid does.

My house is built of wood. So are all my neighbours’ houses. So are 99%+ single family residences in not only Prince George, but also BC, Canada, and the USA.

Mexico needs wood first residential zones. They are dragging the wood first notion down in North America.

As to high rises of wood. I see this as a law that forces inferior construction on people. That HAS to be a first!!!!!

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How often do people with a back yard, who have a fire pit, not also have garden hose connected to a water faucet available?

[url]http://vallartablog.com/mexican-home-construction-explained[/ulr]

Mexican house construction. "only the poorest houses are built of wood"

Notice the house in the picture uses wood for the formwork.

http://vallartablog.com/mexican-home-construction-explained

In warmer climates, there are a lot more insects that live on wood. Thus you will see more concrete and cinder block construction. Thus limiting wood to floor and roof construction.

While in Canada, wood is plentiful, and there are less insects that have an apetite for wood. There is ant infestations, but that can be easily remedied.

We can inject all our wood with poison to keep the bugs out but, that just adds to the cost, and why introduce the chemical to our home environment if we do not need too. If it is not good for the insect, do you think its good for us.

Just how ridiculous can they get? How much money was wasted on this? There are only a handful of nice weekends a year that are "weiner roast weather" and then how many people actually have fire pits in their backyard? There are a lot more snowblowers used a lot more often than backyard fire pits and no one mentions the air pollution there, or will that be next?

The fireworks the other night probably gave off more air pollution that a year's worth of weiner roasts in PG. How about the huge pollution spewing cargo jets they are trying to lure TO PG?

No lets spend a bunch of money targeting a few families roasting marshmallows.

This proposed bylaw amplifies the saying, "garbage in, garbage out" ...

Its not the wieners cooking the first thing people smell when they come to this city!

I'm pretty sure our Mayor's name is spelled "Rogers," not "Rodgers."

How can they tell if I’m having a wiener roast. BC Environment has closed down all its air quality monitoring sites in the City. They tell us that they are not needed now as the residents are causing as much pollution as the industrial sites across the river. So SHUT DOWN YOUR WEINER ROAST we know the residents are causing the problem.
Cheers

Retired, are you serious that BC Environment has no more air quality monitoring?

Are the diesel train engines "downtown" in the CN yard still idling 24/7? A no-idle zone across the street from a Tims drive thru with about 17 SUVs on a good day? Rocket Science Dept. at city hall.

This is purely a tax grab and the new PR guy is selling it as opening up the chance to have a family wenner roast.

The key words are 'no less than $2000 fine and maximum $10,000 fine'.

If you don't have the fire extinguisher out or any of the small rules nobody is going to remember they got you. Thats what this law is all about... the fine print to levy more taxes on you legally. Some poor family guy will have to pay the admin costs at city haul with his childs post secondary fund because he wanted the family to enjoy a wienner roast on a nice summer night in their own yard....

What do you expect, they can't go after the big boys.

Wienie, wiener, weiner, wenner, wienner...(check creative spellings above) ...whatever they are called - one can roast them on the barbeque.

Works like a charm. Smoke from the barbie is not illegal, yet.

They can have my wiener when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.....

Why do the dunderhead bureaucrats at City Hall get it wrong EVERY TIME!