01-31-2022, 07:43 AM
(01-28-2022, 01:15 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: My anger notwithstanding, I suspect that there'd have been a much better chance of this passing if it hadn't been in the middle of the pandemic when it came up.
FWIW...they massively squandered the opportunity, I think a lot of them, while they think this might be the right solution, are completely out of touch with the reality on our sidewalks--they walk to their mailbox and local park and don't really notice any of the problems. You keep pounding them with messages, pictures, etc. and they'll start to get the picture.
It's come up prior to the pandemic. At least in Kitchener, it had worse support last year, and some used the pandemic and its financial impacts as an excuse. But it has been proposed in the past, and certainly it has always been within council and city staff's power to enforce the current bylaw to a much greater extent than it has been.
They have declined to do that, because it upsets homeowners. Councils and the municipalities have done as close to nothing as possible, and we shouldn't use the pandemic as a reason to absolve them for what has been ongoing negligence.