REQUEST FOR DECISION
DATE: June 12, 2017 Report No. EPW-17-026
TO: Laurie Hurst, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM: Jeff Miller, Director of Engineering and Public Works
SUBJECT:
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Repeal of Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw, 2005, No. 2607 and First, Second,Third Reading of Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw, 2017, No. 2898.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That Council:
a. Repeals Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw, 2005, No. 2607; and
b. Gives first, second and third reading of the Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw, 2017, No. 2892.
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RELEVANT POLICY:
Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw, 2005, No. 2607
Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw, 2017, No. 2898
STRATEGIC RELEVANCE:
Healthy and Liveable Community - Ensure multi-modal traffic strategies consider and reflect business and residential growth and development.
Well Managed and Maintained Infrastructure - Identify Infrastructure repair and proactively plan for replacement needs.
BACKGROUND:
The Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw is a bylaw that looks at the administration and regulation of multi-modal transportation within the road corridors of the Township. It provides the statutes that assist or complement other legislation (i.e. Motor Vehicle Act) along with the authority to act to various parties (i.e. Municipal Engineer, Chief Constable). The current bylaw was passed in 2005 and has seen 10 updates over its life. Based on its age and the consolidated changes that have been applied to the bylaw, it is now time to repeal the 2005 bylaw and pass a new bylaw that includes all the updates. See Attachment A.
ISSUES:
1. Rationale for Selected Option
The 2017 bylaw has a number of changes incorporated into it. The first overall change is the incorporation of the 10 updates into the bylaw. Currently these updates are appended to Bylaw 2607 but do not form part of the original bylaw. Some of these updates form a significant portion of how the bylaw is applied ...
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