07-03-2018, 03:41 PM
Quote:Not sure what your point here is, but a friend of mine has an interesting opinion, that federally (or provincially) a requirement should be passed that any bylaw passed by the city must come with resources, and a plan for first, enforcing that bylaw uniformly and fairly in the city, and second, a method of assessing the effectiveness of the bylaw.
I like this a lot. I have no faith in bylaw enforcement after the "no turning until pedestrians clear the intersection" bylaw was introduced a couple of years ago, and after years of seeing backyard fire bylaws largely being used by people to punish neighbours they don't like. I respect that it's hard to enforce a lot of bylaws, but that makes me question why they exist, and a policy like this would could clear a lot of crufty old stuff out of the system.
I wish actual efficiency were meaningfully incentivized, but I can't even imagine what that sort of incentive would look like. The only metrics that seem to matter are job counts and tax rates, and efficiency doesn't meaningfully correlate to either.