These by-laws are made for a purpose. They get written to cover that purpose.
This driveway was made wider at one spot to get around a cable box.
The widening really bothers nothing. (as far as I know)
The by-law was likely made to keep people from making huge driveways.
The way the law is written it is all encompassing and will now cost $400.00 to get around when it was never written for the reason at hand.
There should be some attachment to these laws as to why they were made in the first place to make them reviewable and non applicable in certain instances. Discresion of the by-law officer or whatever.
I know this opens a whole other can of worms, but darnit, its our country, our city, we pay the taxes and should get something for it. Not just treated like a piece of crap and told it will cost us money every time we need an explanation as to why were are being ripped off.
And comments like, "well you should have checked in the first place", just drive it deeper.
Checked in the first place about what...jogging a driveway 1' around a cable box...come on.