11-09-2018, 10:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2018, 10:36 AM by danbrotherston.)
(11-09-2018, 10:13 AM)Spokes Wrote: Maybe they are focusing on some areas more than others, but I definitely saw no enforcement of the bylaws
Do you mean proactive or in response to complaints? Last winter they did zero proactive enforcement, this year they plan to do *some*.
However, bylaw was responding to complaints last year. In one instance, a sidewalk on my way out of my neighbourhood is unoccupied and I called and complained about daily for 2-3 weeks, by the fourth week, it has been cleared by city crews.
In previous years I had been told, that their bylaw officers were "weeks" backlogged in complaints, but nobody would even tell me last year.
Worse, that last major snowfall we had, where most did not clear their sidewalks, and we had flurries two days in a row which delayed bylaw's response, I actually called in 2-3 dozen sidewalks that I walk on on my way to work. I was explicit too, I listed every sidewalk that wasn't cleared only. Yet, an acquaintance of mine, who had cleared her sidewalk (and I checked my list, and her house wasn't on the naughty list) did get a warning from bylaw.
No matter how you look at it, bylaw enforcement is a bad policy.