Erin cancels 'unsafe order' for Hillsburgh heritage building

ERIN – An unsafe order issued to the owner of a downtown Hillsburgh building has been cancelled.

The town issued the order to Stanislaus Goveas last month to produce an engineering report about whether his two-storey 1887 building was structurally sound.

Located at 92 Trafalgar Road, the building, home to main-level tenant Consumer Cannabis, was the subject of a heritage designation dispute heard earlier in the year by the Ontario Land Tribunal.

The tribunal heard from an engineer testifying on Goveas’ behalf that the building needed to be repaired or demolished.

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The town issued the order, used by municipalities to force remediation on buildings deemed faulty or dangerous, following an August decision by the tribunal about the heritage designation.

(The tribunal didn’t decide on the building’s integrity; it said that was outside of the hearing’s scope.)

Goveas was ordered to prove the building’s integrity with a report by Sept. 4.

“The town reviewed the report, inspected the building and found it complies with the Ontario Building Code and rescinded the order,” stated Erin development manager David Waters in an email.

It’s unclear what the order or the report specified.

A freedom of information request was filed after the Advertiser’s request for copies was denied.