09-17-2020, 01:11 PM
(09-17-2020, 12:32 PM)Coke6pk Wrote:(09-17-2020, 11:18 AM)dtkmelissa Wrote: How exactly does the proactive enforcement work? Are these 4 officers specific to sidewalk clearing or are they regular bylaw officers who now have the authority to proactively enforce snow clearing requirements, as opposed to reacting to resident complaints? How much of their workday involves being out patrolling for unclear sidewalks?
I no longer work for by-law, so I don't know this to be fact, but this is my guess:
In the spring/summer/fall months we have trail bike units that patrol the parks and do parking by-law on their travels. In the winter/spring/fall time, they are responsible for school zone enforcement, and misc parking by-law enforcement outside of school hours.
I would assume these officers will be doing the proactive enforcement as they traverse the city going from school to school.
Coke
The report specifically talked about hiring new officers, on a temporary basis in winter. It is definitely not the case that existing officers are doing pro-active enforcement, those officers are already at capacity dealing with complaints, which often result in days (or weeks) long backlogs of complaints about uncleared sidewalks to investigate.
Sorry Coke, I know bylaw officers are trying, but generally I find bylaw enforcement pretty ineffective for things like parking and sidewalk clearing.