🔊 Dear Blenvale: About That “Perfectly Normal” Noise Study

Dear Blenvale,

Did you have a noise study conducted in your unit?

No?

Funny.
Because I did.

🎖️ The Lucky Winner in a Cookie-Cutter Building

Let me explain how special I was.

This is a 50-year-old building.
No noise studies.
No baseline data.
No history of acoustic testing.

Ever.

Yet somehow, magically, my unit – in a building where every unit is structurally identical – was selected for an ASTC noise study.

Why?

Because at the time, Antony Bohnert, King Shit of Turd Island, lived below me.

Lucky me.

🧱 Let’s Be Clear: This Makes No Sense

ASTC studies are done in new builds, when:

walls are newly constructed,
materials are standardized,
and developers need to prove compliance.

They are not conducted in half-century-old condo buildings with:

aging materials,
known sound transmission issues,
and zero historical benchmarking.

Yet here we are.

🎯 One Building. Identical Units. One Target.

These units are cookie cutters.
Same layout.
Same walls.
Same construction era.

So explain this to me slowly:

If noise transmission was the problem, why was only my unit tested?

Why not:

the unit above?
the unit below?
literally anyone else?

Oh right. Because this wasn’t about noise.
It was about me.

🐾 And About the Dog…

My dog rarely barks.
And when he does, it’s part of the service he provides.

That was known.
That was documented.
That was supported medically.

Yet an Ontario court somehow concluded that it was perfectly fine – not discriminatory, not selective, not oppressive – to single out a disabled owner and run a noise study in her unit to appease one complaining neighbor.

Really?

⚖️ “Not Singled Out,” They Said

The judge said I wasn’t singled out.

Let that sink in.

In a building where no one else has ever had a noise study,
where no baseline exists, where every unit is identical,

I alone was tested.

And somehow… that’s neutral?

No.
That’s selective enforcement with a lab coat on.

🔥 This Is Why We Appeal

So don’t clutch your pearls and ask why we appealed.

We appealed because:

logic was abandoned,
context was ignored,
and discrimination was rebranded as “reasonable.”

Calling this fair doesn’t make it fair.
Calling this neutral doesn’t make it neutral.
And repeating it loudly doesn’t make it true.

See you on appeal.

Claudia

Condo Chronicles