12-12-2018, 09:04 PM
(12-12-2018, 01:21 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Does anyone know, or could tweet at the city of Kitchener to find out, how many sidewalk clearing offences have been issued under the new pro-active enforcement rules?
Also, is there some place on the city's website or twitter feed that says that it has been 24hours and by-law will now accept complaints? Even some giant red/green indicator or timer showing when the snow 'officially' stopped falling on their front page would be useful.
The city staff will be coming back to council with a report on sidewalk clearing in the spring. I urge (and at the time will again urge) everyone who cares about this issue to come speak at council. It's painful and annoying, but if we come and speak, we can make it painful and scary for Councillors to continue to do nothing. At the time, I suspect they will come forward with some statistics, certainly including number of infractions, and maybe, number of patrol days, but other important statistics like, number of days that roads were plowed, but that no enforcement took place because of a few flurries will not be included.
The good news here, is staff are largely on our (my) side, or at least they were before, they wanted to do the pilot. I will speak again in the spring, and I have a lot of meditating to do if I want to be polite in my speaking. At this point, after nearly slipping on the still uncleared sidewalk on the way to the train station, I fear my presentation may consist of the words "My mother always told me if I don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Thank you, any questions?".
As for the 24 hour bylaw, no, literally nobody knows, you can't even call and ask, if you ask to be transferred to bylaw AND they answer the phone, they will still not tell you if they're enforcing TODAY, but they'll know if they enforced yesterday.
You can also just check environment Canada which is what my app does.