11-06-2018, 04:51 PM
(11-06-2018, 03:43 PM)Spokes Wrote: Im curious...there's a Bell Canada owned property near my house. In the three years I've lived there they've shoveled the sidewalk exactly zero times. Zero. I wonder if they'll be fined.
Did you call and complain before? They might get fined, but there's a good chance behaviour won't change.
By the way, the way bylaw enforcement works, if they find you haven't cleared your sidewalk, they give you a notice (no fine), and then give you another 24 hours to clear your sidewalk (and really subject to all the same restrictions as above...including resetting when it snows), so another 24hours - 11 days (11 days being the longest stretch of time last winter with ZERO bylaw enforcement). If they come back and find your property still uncleared, it's sent to city crews for clearing, and city crews will get to it, not surprisingly, after they're done clearing city sidewalks 24 hours after a snowfall.
So if you report an uncleared sidewalk, and its a snowy month, it could be a month before it gets cleared.
So our sidewalk bylaw is pure GARBAGE. Councillors who voted against the pilot on the belief the bylaw can be made to work are lying their constituents, and maybe themselves.
I laid this out in my presentation to council...they choice to ignore reality.