By Nick Dube

City council meeting discusses problematic property.

Oct 20, 2025 | 8:45 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Tonight’s city council meeting focused on a growing issue for a Prince George neighbourhood. The property in question at 4235 Quentin Avenue has been subject to numerous complaints for over a year including excessive noise, camping on the property, aggressive behavior from dogs and discarding garbage outdoors. In total there have been 44 complaints called in on the residence with bylaw taking 25 calls and the RCMP taking 19 of their own. Over the past year the complaints have been directed at the tenant in the basement suite of the residence who was reported to have numerous visitors to the residence.

On October 16th in a letter to council the Owners of the property issued an apology for all the disturbance. They stated that they advised the tenant numerous times to behave and keep the property clean but were ignored. The owner said that they filed for eviction July 1, 2025 with a 30-day notice and were subsequently given an additional 10 day grace period and still remained in the residence up until October 14, 2025 when they finally vacated. The owners stated that they believed the tenant was a sincere individual when they rented out the unit and could not believe what this has turned into.

There was a recommendation to council to issue an order that certain activities cease at the residence with the city to recover the costs of the nuisance for non- compliance. Councillor Brian Skakun questioned why the nuisance abatement law was not used before. City of Prince George Director of administrative services Eric Depenau said that the bylaw has only been inforced a few times since it’s inception in 2018 and that involved more calls to bylaw services and police. Councillor Skakun then asked if the City could recover any of the enforcement costs from prior to the hearing to which Depenau replied ” Cost recovery cannot start until it comes before council. There is nothing we can do about previous cost recovery”. Councillor Cori Ramsey echoed Skakun and asked if the nuisance abatement bylaw could be amended to fine property owners in the case of repeated calls and Depenau said the current bylaw allows for some advancement.

Councillor Ramsey put forward a motion to review the nuisance abatement in addition to cost recovery elements. She stressed that multiple amounts of calls to a residence should be met with fines. This review was approved unanimously by council.City council also approved unanimously the main issue to order the owners and tenants of the residence at 4235 Quentin avenue to cease all activity that relates to the nuisance abatement bylaw or be subject to the recovery of costs.