04-18-2018, 10:32 PM
(04-18-2018, 08:38 PM)MidTowner Wrote: The thing that irked me the most this week was the City of Kitchener's declared snow event. My neighbour received a ticket at 9:00am yesterday, and it wasn't because our street needed to be cleared- it already had been. In fact, folks are still walking in the street because the sidewalks still haven't been reliably cleared.
And they won't be: mother nature will take care of it..eventually. When I called bylaw this morning about two addresses where the owners won't clear (because they haven't all winter), I was helpfully informed that the forecast is calling for warmer temperatures. Not very useful.
The bylaw enforcement is nothing more than theater. It doesn't exist to clear sidewalks, it exists to give you a number to call to complain, to feel like something is being done, without actually doing anything ever. I'm not saying that a sidewalk will never be cleared, but the intent is not to effectively keep sidewalks clear. If that were the intent, then whoever designed it should be utterly ashamed.
Waterloo's bylaw is even more theater. Like I said, I'm not entirely convinced it is anything more than an answering machine which just get's a new tape every morning. In fact, I'm fairly sure that's what's there today.
How should one feel when the city treats them this way.