Bylaws Under Review

The Town’s Traffic and Parking By-law is currently under review. The purpose of the review is to update the By-law to meet the demands of today’s traffic environment.

Several changes to the By-law are being proposed with regard to enforcement practices and procedures. A summary of these changes includes:

• Changing the parking prohibition from midnight to 8 am to 2 am to 6 am
• Introducing a new provision for the parking or stopping of vehicles 0.3 metres from a driveway or private lane.
• Altering the overnight enforcement strategy from seasonally (in the winter months) to a practice that is in effect throughout the year. Proactive between Nov 1 to April 30 and complaint-based May 1 to Oct 31
• Altering enforcement of parking on or over a sidewalk from daytime hours to 24 hr enforcement.
• Introducing a new provision for vehicles:

• • that park within 3 metres of a fire hydrant
  • that park in accessible and do not display so Officers can read the permit details
  • that park in electric vehicle charging stations and are not an electric vehicle, or are not charging an electric vehicle

Changes to the Traffic By-law are being proposed in order to:

• provide clarification of infractions,
• respond to resident complaints and current community trends
• increase the efficiency of By-law Services staff, and
• ensure that the Traffic by-law remains the appropriate tool so that pedestrian and vehicular safety is maintained within the Town

Council is requesting an increase from the $15.00 set fine ($10.00 early payment) for most minor infractions to $40.00 set fine for most minor infractions.

Please review a copy of the Draft Parking By-law, Report to Council and the Rationale Handout for more information.

Staff will be bringing forward the revised Parking By-law to Council on August 8, 2022. The Town is encouraging feedback from the public.  A survey was available from July 11 to July 22, 2022.

Documents

Draft Traffic By-law

Report LS2022 - 13 Traffic By-law

Traffic By-law Consultation

Public Engagement 

Have Your say Shelburne Parking Survey