02-19-2019, 09:55 AM
(02-17-2019, 09:34 AM)Canard Wrote: I just want to chime in and give my two cents:
I personally have no problem whatsoever clearing my sidewalk. As I've mentioned before, ours is the clearest on our street, always down to the concrete, full-width. It takes me about 30 seconds to do on top of my driveway and since I stay on top of it, it never gets to the point where it's a chore.
THAT BEING SAID, I HATE the current system because I feel like I can't even go on vacation or up to visit my parents for a weekend, because... what if it snows? Then I'm screwed, I'll get dinged. So I live in fear, and am frantically out there constantly worrying all winter that I'm going to break the rules that the City has set up. They've turned what should be a positive thing into a negative thing and making people live in fear seems like an absolutely terrible way to run a community.
So there needs to be a severe adjustment in the method of ticketing and enforcement.
I initially thought this but then I looked around my neighbourhood and realized there was ZERO enforcement, or just some property owners didn't care about the risks. And so I stopped worrying. 99.9% of the time my sidewalk is cleared.
Maybe your neighbourhood is different.
I just won't let the city make me worry all the time.
There are so many reasons to support city wide clearing of sidewalks, but for me, from a purely selfish reason, there are a hundred things I'd rather do with my time than shovel snow. So paying a small fee to have it taken care of, I'm good with that.