12-06-2016, 11:40 PM
(12-06-2016, 08:16 PM)darts Wrote: ...
then narc on them, there is a system in place to do so already.
First, the system sucks. After a major snowfall, the bylaw department receives hundreds of complaints. I've been told it's officers can take many weeks to visit a site, and then weeks for a follow-up, then weeks more for snow clearing to actually happen. I've had sites I've called in that still weren't cleared until almost 2 months later. That's not a real solution.
Secondly, it doesn't matter, narcing doesn't fix the problem. So long as people don't clear their sidewalks, people will be inconvenienced, endangered, and trapped. Simply punishing those few who happen to generate complaints doesn't problem doesn't make it go away. I thought it would, but it doesn't, year after year, sidewalks aren't cleared. And we shouldn't be caring so much about punishing those responsible as we should be about fixing the problem. A homeowner and complaint based system doesn't fix the problem.