Snow fort ordered to be torn down by local officials
Digital Reporter
Saturday, January 24, 2015, 2:48 PM - It's been a winter rife with regulations on outdoor activities in parts of Canada.
First came bans on tobogganing on popular sledding hills in a number of communities.
Limitations on outdoor winter fun also spread to residential homes. There have been ongoing cases of outdoor rinks being dismantled by order of local municipalities.
And now, a snow fort has become a site of controversy for at least one Quebec family.
A man in the Montreal suburb of Beaconsfield has been ordered by city officials to remove a snow fort from his front lawn.
Snow fort is hazardous and must be torn down, Beaconsfield public security tells resident https://t.co/DVHX7NVv1I pic.twitter.com/N6VBfaSaNl
— CBC Montreal (@CBCMontreal) January 22, 2015
Yann Lefebvre built an open-air structure for his four children in early January.
But since then, what was supposed to be a source of outdoor fun has caused nothing but headaches for the family.
Public officials visited the home on numerous occasions to inform Lefebvre and his wife that the play area needed to be taken down.
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Although it was constructed on the front lawn and back from the road, it technically sat on city property.
The placement of the fort fell less than a metre from where it would be safe, according to Beaconsfield mayor Georges Bourelle. Snow plows present a potential danger of burying anyone playing in the fort under piles of roadside snow.
The frozen playground is set to removed this weekend. Lefebvre plans to rebuild a second fort farther back from the road.
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