Fu Ren and his wife Feng Yan, who own the property at 414 East 10th Avenue, were found guilty of a trio of bylaw offences following a trial on Dec. 13 and fined a total of $37,500.
The main conceptual idea of the text is that the owners of a Vancouver apartment building demolished due to repeated fires have been fined for bylaw violations, but the fines are considered insufficient by local officials who argue that the city needs to crack down harder on negligent landlords. They believe the current fines are too low, and that the city needs to implement stronger consequences for landlords who disregard safety regulations and allow their properties to deteriorate, ultimately putting tenants and the public at risk.
