Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / The outside of the FVRD building at 45950 Cheam Avenue in Chilliwack.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

FVRD motion

FVRD to consider motion on contravention of building bylaws at Popkum property

Oct 23, 2025 | 2:25 PM

CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Regional District board will consider a motion at their meeting today to take administrative action against a property owner in Popkum who has allegedly contravened building bylaws.

According to the text of item 12.4 on today’s agenda, FVRD directors will be asked to approve a motion to file a notice with the Land Title Office about the actions of a property owner in the 52900 block of Yale Road regarding ongoing contraventions.

An FVRD staff report states that on April 6, 2022, an FVRD bylaw officer investigated a complaint of an addition and renovations to a shop being constructed without a building permit. FVRD says it determined there had been an incomplete application for a project, and a permit was never issued since there were six required application documents that remained outstanding.

The FVRD bylaw officer attended the site and confirmed interior renovations and an addition had occurred, noting that the ground area inside and outside the shop was prepared with rebar to pour concrete. The bylaw officer spoke with the owner on the phone while on site advising that her permit remained in the application stage, it had not been issued, and no work was to take place until the permit was issued. The owner stated said she had all her permits approved and was told she could put an extension on her shop and has email proof. The bylaw officer posted a stop work notice on the structure and advised no work could continue until the permits were issued.

In September 2024, the FVRD building department said it notified the owner that the building permit application (BP015114 for renovation and addition to the shop) had been cancelled since it was incomplete and there had been no submissions received since June 10, 2022. A re-application for this project would be required, and the file was referred to bylaw enforcement for follow-up.

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Image: Google Maps / The property where the bylaw contraventions have allegedly occurred is just east of the Dairy Queen/Oxygen Fitness on Yale Road in Popkum.

Between September 2024 and July 2025, FVRD says its bylaw department conducted an additional five site inspections, mailed eight letters and issued thirteen bylaw enforcement tickets with outstanding fines and fees totaling $6,120 related to the construction without permits to the shop structure. One ticket, issued in September 2024, was paid by the owner.

FVRD says the owner, Kamila Biamonte at 52984 Yale Road, has been notified repeatedly that a fully completed building permit is required for the renovations and addition to the shop structure, including the lean-to addition on the front of the shop and a final inspection on the original structure to resolve the bylaw enforcement; however to date this has not be done.

FVRD board members will consider the motion at their meeting at 6 p.m. today (Oct. 23) at the FVRD building, 45950 Cheam Avenue in Chilliwack.