When campaigning in Riverview yesterday I met a few people who had received tickets under section 12 of the Land Use Bylaw, with respect to storage of RVs and trailers on private property. The link to the relevant provision is pasted below:
http://www.cochrane.ca/municipal/cochrane/cochrane-website.nsf/AllDoc/7B997B2E4FF4843D8725757D0054452C/$File/RV%20Section%20-%20Land%20Use%20Bylaw.pdf
There are also provisions that regulate and control parking of RVs and trailers on the town's streets and laneways-all are called "highways" under the Traffic Control Bylaw and also the provincial Traffic Safety Act.
The problem with section 12 of the Land Use Bylaw is that the provisions are completely arbitrary and senseless, and even discriminatory. If you live in a residential district with a strip of yard next to the driveway, you can park an RV, but if you don't have such an arrangement, you have to find some way to park your RV in the backyard or sideyard or not at all. The provisions do not reflect any safety considerations, any aethsetic issues or any real concerns that I heard when on council previously. These provisions need to be thoroughly examined, because they are causing real hardships to people who use their RVs and trailers during the fall and winter.
I hope to be able to have a review of these provisions. I have never agreed with the logic or illogic of the provisions and why they were enacted in the first place.
The provisions under the Traffic Control Bylaw are also needing a good review.
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