Comment 86890

By AnjoMan (registered) | Posted February 28, 2013 at 10:21:11 in reply to Comment 86874

I get what you are saying, but realistically the 'culture of retribution' is propagated by bad neighbours, not by complaints to the city. A 'culture of retribution' would be when neighbours vindictively abuse our bylaw system to spite each other - the problem is not the complaint system, its just a matter of neighbours treating each other poorly.

If we really believe that our bylaws are legitimate and should be enforced, then having them reported on a complaint basis is actually a great implementation - you don't have to pay someone to patrol and look for them, and only violations which are actually bothering/affecting other people get reported, which emphasizes the spirit of the bylaw over the letter of the bylaw. Some bylaws need to be enforced universally (e.g. parking on major streets), whereas others don't need to be enforced unless there are problems (e.g. if someone is making construction noise but no-one is bothered by it, what is the point of enforcing the bylaw in that instance?).

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