Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

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In the article, Ms. MacNeil referred specifically to giving notices to property owners who had done a "fantastic job" but for one reason or another there was a "section where there was some ice."

That doesn't to me sound like someone who has just skipped on a de-icing agent entirely. It sounds like a patch of ice that could conceivably cause someone to slip and that would resultingly be a potential liability for the city if they had already inspected. That's what they care about. As opposed to properties that were possibly sheets of ice last week, but didn't get inspected while bylaw officers were issuing all of these notices to properties that were merely imperfectly done.

We don't know for sure what MacNeil meant.

''fantastic" could be they did clear it really quickly. 

For clearing people's opinions of fantastic could differ.  Plenty of folks clear one shovel width, the might think that's fantastic but someone in a wheelchair would not. 

I'd put my money on he meant folks who shoveled their sidewalk well but then had runoff from warm weather which then froze and had an ice sheet.

Yes this sucks for those people, and frankly the bylaw doesn't address and is really really hard to deal with city clearing would suffer from this as well, but with the appropriate use of salt could be mitigated.

But I do think this is still problematic.  It does create a real danger.

Probably be gets complaints from people all over the spectrum of "I did a fantastic job and now I'm ticketed"

I doubt they're being ticketed because there's a snowflake on the sidewalk and nobody is affected by some bylaw officer feels it's technically in violation .