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domestic buildings as were required by Sections 170 to 175
the original Bill attached to Messrs. Chadwick and Simpson's
Report, but I found it unnecessary and impracticable to in-
clude Sections 176 and 177 of that draft in the Ordinance.
The provisions for open spaces around buildings
erected on land purchased from the Crown after the passing of
this Ordinance, for the restriction of the height of such
buildings, and for the widths of new streets, secure ample open
spaces without the additional provisions of Section 176.
Section 177 involved such an enormous
loss of property that it became impracticable on the ground
of the compensation that would have been involved.
Owing to the fact that the City of Victoria is
built on the side of a steep hill these clauses would have
prevented the re-building of many houses, with the result that
the Crown would have had to resume the sites not a few of
which are of great value.
To take Plate III of the Report as an example. If a
house in Queen's Road had been destroyed by fire or other
cause it could only have been rebuilt in such a way as to
leave a space between its back-wall and the front-wall of the
house behind it in Tsui On Lane of not less than one-half of
the height of such latter walls. This would have rendered the
valuable site in Queen's Road so shallow as to be practically
valueless. If on the other hand it had happened to be a house
in Tsul On Lane that had been destroyed, it could not be re-
built at all because after setting back to a distance equal
to one-half the height of the back-wall of the house opposite
it fronting on Queen's Road, and leaving (in accordance with
Section
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