Pubdate: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2004, Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/home.html Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457 Author: Zen Ruryk, City Hall Bureau Chief Note: Follow this series at http://www.mapinc.org/source/Toronto+Sun Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) CITY TO TIGHTEN POT HOUSE RULES THE CITY is a couple of months away from finalizing its efforts to provide a detailed alert to prospective home buyers about damage caused by marijuana growing operations, a top municipal licensing official says. Pam Coburn, head of Toronto's municipal licensing and standards branch, said yesterday once the plan is completed, she expects fire, health and other city departments to start issuing orders demanding that owners of busted grow-op houses address problems like mould. Prospective buyers would find out about the city's decision to issue work orders when they looked at a property's title information. People could then go to the city to find out details about the orders. Council is poised to look at the issue of marijuana grow houses next week. Coburn added it would take changes to legislation to give the city the authority to pass a bylaw stopping the sale of a former grow house until it passed a safety inspection. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake