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| CITY OF KITCHENER |
When a snow event hits, it is the goal of the city’s operations crews to clear all streets within 24 hours after cessation of the storm. This job can be difficult when vehicles are parked on the streets, impeding snow-removal equipment. To that end, city council has directed staff to put a tag-and-tow bylaw in place so that operations crews can clear the streets of snow more quickly and ensure the safety of both pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
What is the tag-and-tow bylaw?
The new tag-and-tow bylaw prohibits parking on any city street at any time when a “snow event” is declared by the city’s director of operations, to provide safe and efficient access for the city’s operations crews to plow the streets. The declaration will be based on credible weather forecast information, when a minimum of eight centimetres is forecast to fall.
During “snow events,” enforcement staff will be asked to attend locations where parked vehicles are impeding the snow-removal equipment from clearing the street. Enforcement staff will assess the situation and may tag-and-tow some of the vehicles on the street to help the plows get by.
Vehicles will not be tagged and towed based on calls from the public.
Enforcement will only tow the number of vehicles necessary to allow access for the snow-removal equipment. It is possible that only a certain number of vehicles on a street will be removed, regardless of how many are actually present and in violation of the bylaw.
Vehicles will be ticketed and relocated to another area in close proximity when it is possible and practical to do so. Vehicles will be towed at the owners’ expense. In the event that some, but not all, vehicles are towed away, the remaining vehicles found in violation will be ticketed.
The fine for parking on the street during a snow event is $80 (Kitchener). Any parking tickets and towing charges issued cannot be cancelled or withdrawn at any time.
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CITY OF WATERLOO
The City of Waterloo, has a similar stance on “Snow Days”. They will announce on the media and on their web site days in which no parking can occur on any city streets. |
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