03-08-2019, 12:03 PM
(03-05-2019, 11:35 AM)Bob_McBob Wrote: I just submitted a report on Pingstreet for that address, but the app is really buggy in Android and wouldn't let me upload a photo and kept hiding the navigation bar and text entry fields.
That's 111 Weber St W for anyone else submitting a report. Let's see if we can get the city to care about this single location.
It's very possible that the City of Kitchener considers that passable.
I finally actually asked to follow up on a specific address I had called in (I don't know why I thought of this before). I called a week ago about several addresses who are chronic offenders, and noted today that one of them I passed was in the same state as it has been all winter. Today, I asked whether any action had been taken in regards to my complaint. Someone in bylaw informed me that a bylaw officer had inspected and "found it passable." Passable by whom? "Passable." The person on the phone was very smart not to elaborate as to what "passable" means.
Most important, though, is that I was told that the ice and snow left to accumulate and eventually separate the sidewalk from the crosswalk in the case of a corner lot, is an "operations issue." The property owner is not expected to clear this.
I have actually heard this from staff at the City of Waterloo before, and once from City of Kitchener two or three years ago. But, this winter, I have called bylaw to complain about this specific issue (this is the one that impacts me personally most) at corner lots, and my complaints have been accepted. I thought the reason the sidewalks remained the way they are was for the reason that staff was giving me: that there was a high volume of complaints to handle. That's not the case: staff believes that these sidewalks are "good enough." I think that could actually be the case with 111 Weber Street West.