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TORONTO, April 25 (UPI) -- The owner of a downtown Toronto bicycle shop destroyed in a February fire is fuming about a $48,000 demolition bill he got from the city.
Gary Duke's shop was among five old three-story buildings destroyed by the fire. He told reporters he received a letter this week from the city demanding $48,348.94 to cover the demolition contractor's fees.
"I paid my taxes and they covered fire trucks and the water. Why do I get charged for demolition?" Duke told the Globe and Mail. "And what demolition was there to do? My building was completely collapsed. The fire did it all for them."
The other four property owners were sent demolition bills totaling about $30,000, the report said.
Duke's insurance broker, Jeff Smith, said he's never seen a similar situation and called the city's demand "ridiculous."
Diana Dimmer, director of litigation for the city's legal services department, told the Globe and Mail the bills were levied under the Building Code Act's clause covering public safety.
"This is provided for in the legislation," she said. "Things were left in a state where they were unsafe."
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