Given what we have recently learned about the Log Barn we can no longer comment on its applicability as a place to buy food items.
Arrayed in front of the main building and around the parking lot are a number of anomalous displays. They run the gamut from dinosaur sculptures to an overhead goat walk, in which goats climb to the top and use a pulley system to raise cups of corn from ground level. You can feed the goats for only a quarter.
There are wagons, agricultural implements, trucks, tractors, a pond full of geese and ducks, and even a dragon. On the grounds are picnic tables for a quiet picnic among the dinosaurs.
As the result of some recent renovations, it seems that the Log Barn has run afoul of local and provincial building codes. Several stories in various media outlets have been published and aired on the matter. Excerpts from one, chosen more or less at random from Global News, can be read below.
Spallumcheen wants the Log Barn
up to code
August 11, 2016
By Megan Turcato
North Okanagan Reporter Global News
If you’ve traveled through the north Okanagan, you may have stopped in at the Log Barn.
However, the popular roadside attraction has caught the Township of Spallumcheen’s attention because of structures the municipality says were built without permits. The township also believes some aspects of the property don’t comply with the provincial building code.
“It is all about health and safety,” said mayor Janice Brown. “A lot of the work was done without building permits so we didn’t have a chance [until] after it was done to actually go out and inspect it.”
An inspection earlier this year found seven areas where things needed to be brought up to code or didn’t have permits, including issues with handrails on stairs and guards on decks.
In a follow-up inspection, months later, only some of the work had been completed. Now Spallumcheen council has taken action and has put a notice on the property’s title.
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We decided that we needed to put a notice on title to protect the potential buyers, if there are any, and to let people know that we do have concerns with the building code,” said Brown.
The notice doesn’t force the Log Barn to take action. It simply acts as a notification to anyone interested in the property that the municipality has further information they may want to be aware of.
The notice could become especially relevant to potential buyers if the property is ever put up for sale.
The Log Barn owners did not respond to Global Okanagan’s requests for comment Thursday.
Read on at Global News