Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

Cambridge has an online portal for reporting bylaw issues, with an option for "sidewalk snow complaints". It hasn't worked for the several days I've been trying because the underlying mapping service is broken. They also have a general bylaw inquiry form, and a direct bylaw email form. Their direct email address before the eSolutionsGroup update was bylaw@cambridge.ca.

https://online2.cambridge.ca/ServiceCamb...Roads.aspx

https://forms.cambridge.ca/Bylaw-Inquiry

https://www.cambridge.ca/en/build-invest...dards.aspx

Waterloo has an online service portal (My Permits/eService) that allows bylaw complaint reporting. They also allow direct email complaints to municipalenforcement@waterloo.ca.

Kitchener has a similar online portal, as well as a direct reporting form and bylaw email form. I think their email address is bylaw@kitchener.ca.

https://form.kitchener.ca/CSD/CCS/Report-a-problem

https://www.kitchener.ca/en/bylaws-and-e...guide.aspx

Seems like an app could make direct reports to the various email addresses, and they can be confirmed by using the online reporting forms and waiting for replies.

I mean, this was about 4-5 years ago I was trying to build this. I don't remember any of the online forms at the time. I did find the email addresses, and I tried emailing complaints to them, but I didn't get any successful response (like, I never got any reply to any of my emails about snow clearing). There was also the matter of trying to figure out when bylaw would even take a complaint because I needed up to date weather information (which I scraped from UW weather station).

Honestly it was a fun project, I partly gave up because of the difficulty of reporting to bylaw, but also because I realized that bylaw was not a real solution, and partly because CoK ran their pilot....man I had such high hopes.