Strawberry Park Towns | U/C

[danbrotherston]

I think its easy to say they should have come up with a better system, I think it's harder to say what system would be better. I'm sure in this forum we could come up with a 100 different options with no real evidence as to which is better.  Evaluating which is better is actually really really hard.

As for Victoria Commons, I don't believe they are private roads, as the townhomes there are freehold, AFAIK.

Edit: Apparently I'm wrong about this. The City's GIS data shows them as private roads:



Now there are a few things I'm not understanding here, I have no idea how private roads work, yet are included in the city map, or why other townhouse developments have not done this.

I also don't understand how these townhomes are managing their private roads, or who actually owns these private roads. Unless only the exterior facing townhomes are freehold, I would think some entity must own and maintain the road, and collect fees or dues from the surrounding owners in order to pay for that maintenance.

If the townhouses on private roads are freehold, there there would be a homeowners' association that would be responsible for things like snow-plowing and maintenance of common areas.  That's the sort of arrangement that my development has.

I wouldn’t call a townhome or house with an HOA freehold either, AFAIK in Ontario a condo corporation is more or less the same thing as an HOA.  Or to put it another way, the condominium act governs condominium corporations which are legislated to manage common property, ergo they are just called condos. But it’s possible there are other forms of common property management in that I am unaware of. I don’t think freehold has a precise definition but I wouldn’t use it to describe any property with additional levels of common property management below that of the city government.  It’s possible that the units facing the road are different from the interior ones, or it is possible that my friend has a different definition of freehold.