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The owner of the crumbled Magee House is still fighting city hall over the state of his heritage building nearly a year after building partially collapsed, closing the sidewalk and part of the road in front of the property.

There’s no end in sight to the dispute between Ovidio Sbrissa and the city, with the owner now calling on the municipality to pay the bills for restoring his Hintonburg building to the way it was before it crumbled on July 24, 2018.

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Sbrissa wasn’t home when the western wall on the old stone building at 1119 Wellington St. W. collapsed. The city had to retain emergency engineering advice and remove additional parts of the building to make it safe.

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Now, Sbrissa faces the possibility of the city accessing the property, finishing the building stabilization, reopening the road and sidewalk and sending him the bill for the work.

The city is threatening to stop issuing to Sbrissa encroachment permits — the documents needed to allow closures of the sidewalk and part of the road during construction work — because of the length of time it’s taking to get the job done.