Winnipeg city hall opens door to oversized garage built without permits

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The City of Winnipeg is allowing a homeowner in a semi-rural Charleswood neighbourhood to keep an oversized garage that was built without taking out any permits.
City council's appeals committee voted Wednesday to allow a two-storey, 4,900-square-foot garage to remain on the property of Tylan Unruh, who lives in the Wilkes South neighbourhood - a low-density rectangle of southwest Winnipeg that encompasses agricultural land, light industry and large-lot residential properties.
According to a report to council authored by City of Winnipeg planner Donna Kane, Unruh built the garage without taking out a development permit or a building permit.
The garage is four times the size of a structure normally permitted on a residential lot, she wrote, adding Unruh stated in a letter he needed the extra space in order to store "vehicles, maintenance equipment and recreational assets" that include a camper, a motorhome, a six-space snowmobile trailer and a watercraft.
Darren Van Wynsberghe, who lives next door to Unruh, complained about the garage to the city.
"This is crazy, how big it is," Van Wynsberghe said in an interview at the edge of his property. "My backyard used to be like a park. Now I feel like I live in an industrial park."