The ACCESS system from the vestibule to individual units, intended to ring in each unit for the purpose of admitting visitors or those without building keys, requires a land telephone line. The increasing number of tenants who have cell phones instead of landlines have no ability to admit visitors to the building or to visitor parking.
It is intended that visitors be admitted by pressing ‘9’ on the land line phone to unlock the downstairs door, and ‘6’ to open the gate to the visitor parking area.
The system is old, and even units with landlines can find that they suddenly do not work or that it is not possible to HEAR what a caller in the vestibule is saying.
This Health and Safety issue has been reported to the president of Hollyburn Properties,
Director Paul Sander
President, Hollyburn Group
c/o B.C. Apartment Owners and Managers Association
#203 - 1847 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1Y6
and was relayed all the way down the chain of command to the Property Manager here. There is as yet no indication that anything is being done to correct this problem. The police tell us that THEY can always get into the building – and when asked HOW, pointed to the physical strength of police officers. Fire Department personnel can always get in.
However, in the event of a medical emergency, units lacking intercom service have no way to admit responders. In the event that anyone is killed or injured as a result of this GLARING lack of service, PATA has documents proving that Hollyburn was made aware of both the problem and the potential liability, and copies of these documents will be furnished for legal action by anyone harmed.
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