Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

They need to identify these problematic landowners and do proactive inspections - the moment they are in violation of the 24-hour window, they get a fresh reminder, and if they are past a given number of reminders they are immediately fined (both a punitive fee and the cost of the city clearing for them, ideally).

Right now they only give one warning, a habitual offender obviously should not get more warnings, further, the risk with giving any warnings is that the walk remains unclear.  24 hours is too long for many priority sidewalks, let alone the 2-5 days an inspection can take, and a further 2-3 days for actual clearing. And that’s all assuming no more snowfall in the 4-8 days it may take to get cleared.