Winter Walking and Cycling

[the_councillor]

You're right, the clarification was wrong. Here's the report: INS-19-009

From the report, on the pilot: "bylaw officers proactively inspected sidewalks citywide."

So I stand by my initial assessment that the enforcement as it has been practiced doesn't seem to be achieving much, given that the sidewalks that I routinely encounter uncleared are the same ones as earlier this season, and the same ones in years past. This in spite of the fact that the City has had reports about these properties (from me and from others), and has been conducting proactive inspections.

I personally believe that clear sidewalks could be achieved with a regime requiring property owners to clear them. But it would require actual punitive measures for failure to do so. Property owners obviously feel they have nothing to fear from the City if they just don't bother clearing their sidewalks, and I would say that that's a rational belief on their parts.

It is concerning, to put it very politely, that a city councillor, who believes he has heavily researched an issue, who VOTED on this issue, and presumably read the staff report which he presents as evidence of the projects success, is unaware of this fact.

@the_councillor would you care to revise your position in light of this?

Nope.  Good try though.
From the same report...