“We’re dealing with enforcement issues on some now,” Parks Canada is moving to rid Jasper industrial park of buildings that don’t conform to its guidelines on what’s appropriate for a national park.

Home Hardware owner Paul Cambridge has until April 20 to remove a greenhouse, or make improvements that would bring it in line with Parks Canada rules, and other businesses in Stan Wright Industrial Park have been put on notice.

Barry Romanko, manager of realty and municipal services said Monday when asked about several non-conforming structures in the industrial park, but declined to identify them.

““We’re dealing with enforcement issues on some now, but I can’t speak to individual cases,” he said.

Bryn Thomas, one of the owners of White Water Car Wash, said that Parks Canada has given the company a year to remove  a soft-cover Quonset shed from the property and “come  up with an acceptable permanent structure.”

“It’s not clear what’s acceptable, but we’ve got time to think and plan about what we’re going to do,” Thomas said.

Romanko said that regulations dictate that “ancillary buildings must be in the style and motif of the main structure, and be permanent in nature.”

The rules were laid down in 2001, he said, when the municipality was negotiating its jurisdiction and powers with Parks Canada, Romanko said.

“In the community planning process there was a specific direction that they wanted enforcement of land use, planning and development guidelines,” he said.

Mayor Richard Ireland recalls that during discussions, “there was a desire that the regulations be equally enforced. The prevailing attitude was that that up to that point, they had not been.”

Ireland added that should not be taken to mean that the community endorsed the regulations. “All of that was up for discussion, but they have never come back to the community.”

Parks Canada has hired an enforcement officer in the past year, Romanko said, “but we’re not going to take a heavy hand and say you have to take the building down immediately.”

Non-permanent building and any structures erected in the industrial park without a permit from Parks Canada, would become an issue if the lease and land improvements are being sold, he said.

“They must be in compliance with regulations before Parks Canada signs off on the transfer,” Romanko said.

The Home Hardware greenhouse only became an issue when it was moved from the rear of an adjacent lot to the street front where it is plainly visible.

“It might have been okay if it had stayed where it was,” Romanko said. “Out of sight is out of mind.”