Non-Compliant Setback of Existing Buildings from Sloping Ground Geotechnical and Legal Ramifications
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A single-family residence built in 1983 near the crest of a 105 m deep valley with a creek at its base was deemed non-compliant in 2006 based on the County's setback By-Law. As a result, "an acceptable geotechnical study" was required to demonstrate that the County's setback requirement could be relaxed. The geotechnical study was undertaken using visual inspection, aerial photo interpretation, past setback studies in Alberta and judgment since drilling, installation and monitoring of instrumentation would have been time consuming and costly. Although the geotechnical study showed that the site was stable and the setback could be relaxed, an annual inspection (changed to bi-annual by the County) was recommended to guard against possible future changes in site conditions. The landowner rejected this inspection requirement and initiated legal action against the County in February 2007. This case study demonstrates some of the geotechnical and legal ramifications associated with a building deemed non-compliant (23) years after its construction.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".