A B.C. homeowner who turned down a city buyout after a 200-year flood ravaged his neighbourhood has failed to obtain compensation after the value of his property plummeted.
On May 10, 2018, a major flood caused significant damage across Grand Forks, B.C. The low-lying North Ruckle neighbourhood was one of the hardest hit areas of the city, with water overwhelming about 60 homes.
The damage was so great that the city later moved to buy out the neighbourhood’s residents. The idea, wrote B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray in a recent decision, was to remove all the dwellings and infrastructure—including streets, water, sewer and power—from the area, rezone it
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