Public Hearing on Snow Removal Regulations Scheduled for Wednesday February 25th at 7pm.

[courtney o'keefe]

There will be a Public Hearing before the Board of Aldermen’s Committee on Legislative Matters on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, at 7 PM, in the Aldermanic Chambers, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 93 Highland Avenue, on the Order of Alderman Mary Jo Rossetti, Chairman of the Committee, for public input related to the city’s snow removal ordinance (Ordinance 2014-12, found at Chapter 12 Section 8).

Comments

[courtney o'keefe (from livejournal.com)]

This is a conversation regarding changes that were made to the ordinance this past December. The new ordinance gives residents a stricter timetable to clear snow.

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the info Courtney; I guess I can see how people are concerned with the smaller time frame to clear snow- though curious if people who have gotten violations since the new Ordinance were deserving.

For this particular Ordinance what was the early process, I mean did they get input from the community then or did our elected officials decide for us? I ask that because I believe this is the second time a decision was made or work was done and then a bit of blow back from the community occurred. The other situation I'm thinking of was when the city placed new trees and after the work was done (and most likely fully funded) the city organized a meeting because some people were unhappy about having trees placed in front of there homes.

[courtney (from livejournal.com)]

The administration submitted changes and the Board approved them was the earlier process. Once approved and publicized, residents and business owners expressed their concern over the truncated timeframe. I'm wondering why the Board of Aldermen is backtracking on this and didn't place the updated ordinance in Committee for further discussion. A lot has changed since I was an Alderman.