Restrictions on erection of or addition to buildings within street alignment or building line

("Restrictions on erection of or addition to buildings within street alignment or building line")

1. (1) ... within a street alignment, if such additions be added to the height and rest upon an existing building or wall upon the owner of the building executing an agreement binding himself and his successors in interest—
   • (a) not to claim compensation in the event of the commissioner at any time thereafter calling upon him or such successors to remove any building erected or added in pursuance of such permission or any portion thereof; and
   • (b) to pay the expenses of such removal: Provided that the commissioner shall, in every case in which he gives permission, report his reasons in writing to the standing committee.
2. (2) If the commissioner refuses to grant permission to erect or add to any building on the ground that the proposed site falls wholly or in part within a street alignment prescribed under section 242 and if such site or the portion thereof which falls within such alignment be not acquired on behalf of the corporation within three years after the date of such refusal, the corporation shall pay compensation to the owner of the site.
3. (3) No person shall erect or add to any building between a street alignment and a building line prescribed under section 242 except with the permission of the commissioner, who may when granting permission impose such conditions as the standing committee may lay down for such cases.