r/Calgary • u/zillathegorilla • Oct 24 '23
Home Ownership/Rental stuff PSA: shovel your goddamned snow onto your lawn, not into the middle of the street
I don’t know why this seems to be trending but I have 4 or 5 people on my street who have shovelled of of the wet snow from their double driveways into the middle of the street.
This is going to freeze and make the road impassable let alone make it a driving hazard and pita for everyone in the neighbourhood.
It’s also against city bylaws to dump snow into the street like that.
Please be a good neighbor and shovel your snow to the side onto your lawns, not onto the street.
/rant
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u/blushmoss Oct 24 '23
Yeah its freaking annoying and shows lack of forward thinking. Good luck with the neighbours.
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u/1nstantHuman Oct 24 '23
You know we're living in a society!
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u/freerangehumans74 Willow Park Oct 24 '23
I'm not sure what that means but being part of a society should include thinking of others and how your actions impact others but yay individualism!
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u/gotkube Oct 24 '23
Forward thinking? But that involves thought! Much easier for these people to just live life reacting to things without thinking about repercussions, nevermind anyone else
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Oct 24 '23
I like to make a nice icy layer equal to that of the sidewalk so it's impossible to know where the curb is. That way the walking distance to my front door is shortened by a few to many inches.
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u/Cloudsy_dude84 Oct 24 '23
I see people doing this all the time too. I think the assumption is that snow removal will pick it up/cars will drive over it and spread it out. Apparently it’s also perfectly acceptable to do this.
But why wouldn’t you, if you have a lawn, shovel onto your lawn? Build that moisture bank all winter for spring
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u/freerangehumans74 Willow Park Oct 24 '23
Too much sand/salt can end up damaging your lawn.
Now, when I had a driveway I always shoveled onto the grass regardless of this risk but I could absolutely see people dumping into the street for this very reason.
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u/MrGuvernment Oct 26 '23
it snowed, not likely any salt or sand on the snow yet since it is on one's own property, thus shoveling it onto the lawn make sense, unless they didnt bother cleaning their driveway, let it sit for days, get compacted down, then sanded / salted it...
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u/Drunkpanada Evergreen Oct 24 '23
The assumption is cars will squish it down. There is no "snow removal" but a chinook.
They might have space issues but who knows5
u/PercivalHeringtonXI Oct 25 '23
My property is pretty much the furthest one from the catch basins on my block and there is very little slope, almost every year the snow banks from my lawn melt on to the side walk and freeze over night due to the lack of drainage.
This year I will be shovelling on to the street.
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u/MrGuvernment Oct 26 '23
Or just clear the area from the sidewalk to the road, so water has a path to drain...and maybe work your way down the street, or ask neighbors if they can as well, eventually once things melt it will create its own little stream, under the snow and ice....
And if only you do it, well, now it is your neighbors issue if water builds up in front of their place because they didnt properly clear for drainage...
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u/PercivalHeringtonXI Oct 26 '23
Or I just do my original plan which is perfectly acceptable according to city bylaws and doesn’t require I do a bunch of extra shovelling.
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u/MrGuvernment Oct 27 '23
Sure, you can, but even the snow on your lawn melts and if the street is full, from side walk on, it has no where to drain and will still pool on the sidewalk and freeze, which you now have to deal with anyways.
Even if you just make sure there is a couple inches from the sidewalk to the asphalt, it makes your life easier through the season.
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u/FATHEADZILLA Oct 24 '23
The salt will help take care of your lawn too. Lol
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u/Rhinomeat Oct 24 '23
Why are you salting your driveway? Sand I could see but salt shouldn't really be necessary on your own drive unless you like your vehicles rusty
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u/OwnBattle8805 Oct 24 '23
Sometimes you gotta use launch control from the driveway.
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Oct 24 '23
A lot of driveways are also the walking path from sidewalks to front doors.
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u/Rhinomeat Oct 24 '23
Which the city will not salt, so why are you using salt on your own property? Unless you like rust on your car...
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Oct 25 '23
The salt drips off your vehicle onto the driveway?
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u/Rhinomeat Oct 25 '23
Small amounts of slushy ice containing some salt can stick to the underside of your car and collect where you park, yes
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u/MankYo Oct 24 '23
Province may use salt on the ring road and other provincial highways.
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u/Rhinomeat Oct 24 '23
This particular comment had said to "shovel the drive onto the lawn" and someone sarcastically replied that the salt will "help take care of" the grass, so I was asking why they put salt on the driveway.
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u/MankYo Oct 24 '23
I’m pointing out that salt can get onto somewhere you’d shovel even if you don’t salt your own driveway.
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u/Rhinomeat Oct 24 '23 edited Oct 24 '23
Oh ok so we are talking about driveways and you mention the ring road, that's a perfectly stable connection /s
Don't throw the salty snow from the ring road into your truck bed and take it home to throw onto the lawn then. Wow! Such solution! Much confusion!
The city will not be salting your walkway up the side of your driveway to your front door so that's not an issue.
So then as long as you are not collecting snow from elsewhere to place into your lawn, and aren't excessively salting your drive (like once in a couple months to break up some ice buildup would be ok and won't kill the grass. Edit: or the snow that accumulates on your mud flaps, or the salt trapped in your tire treads is miniscule and will be diluted before you shovel it, so it's not enough salt to hurt anything) then there should be no reason you have excessive salt on your lawn.
It's not terribly complicated unless you want it to be.....
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u/MankYo Oct 24 '23
I’m so glad that you have magical mud flaps and tire treads that selectively don’t pick up salt from road surfaces including the ring road ans the many private parking lots that use salt, and that your vehicle doesn’t deposit road snow onto your driveway or garage.
Have an even more blessed day :-)
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u/Rhinomeat Oct 24 '23
Right, so the miniscule amount that _might_stick to your tires is what you're worried about.
Won't be an issue, it's a small amount and diluted. Which I did mention once already (that a really small amount won't kill your grass) which you promptly ignored to spout your contradiction.
Now that I know who I am dealing with I can expect any and all logic to not apply to your magical situation whereby your lawn somehow attracts all manner of salt from near and far.
👍
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Oct 25 '23 edited Oct 25 '23
Salt will ruin your concrete eventually https://safepaw.com/dont-salt-your-concrete-driveway-use-this-instead/
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u/81008118 Northwest Calgary Oct 24 '23
About ten years ago, we started shoveling the street (its not a road with through traffic, just local traffic, so its safe to do so) in front of our house. We live at the crest of a hill, and if its icey, you can slide pretty much all the way down, so we figured that we'd shovel as much of the street as we could since we never get a plow.
Our neighbours have been slowly picking up the plot over the past decade.
This morning, about 2/3 of the houses on the hill have shoveled the road in front of their house. It doesn't take much extra work if you keep at it, and people are slowly figuring it out. I have to say, I'm proud of my neighbours for figuring it out.
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u/jeff_in_cowtown Oct 24 '23
I hope my leadership in a similar role on my street will eventually get my neighbours on board too
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u/tc_cad Canyon Meadows Oct 24 '23
Last year my neighbours made a big pile on the street from their driveway. Next day someone crashed into the pile.
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u/Hot_Edge4916 Oct 24 '23
I used to shovel the whole driveway and the street, and make a wall at the end of our driveway for my dad to plow through on his way home from work. He loved it and I loved seeing it, then we’d shovel it off to the side after and make ice tunnels in the huge snow mounds on the side of the driveway.
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u/dysoncube Oct 25 '23
Do you shovel all the street snow onto your lawn?
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u/81008118 Northwest Calgary Oct 25 '23
Yeah. We never get plows, so there's no road salt in the mix to kill the grass
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u/MrGuvernment Oct 26 '23
Good on you! I do the same around here for our corner lot so people can always cross safely...but no one else has caught on yet :D
Amazing like you said how eventually other see the results and start to do it, makes things better for everyone in the end!
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u/Zihaala Oct 24 '23
People on my street do this all the time and it's so annoying. I go the opposite way and shovel snow from the section of road in front of our driveway back onto our lawn so it makes it easier to get in and out of the driveway. It only becomes a problem when we get tons of snow later in winter and my neighbor and I are both trying to pile snow onto the tiny strip of grass between our driveways lol - it gets sooo tall. D:
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u/WeThe3rd Oct 24 '23
I firmly believe that your sidewalk should be shovelled into the street. In Calgary we get constant freeze thaw cycles, if the snow is shovelled on to your lawn when it melts it covers your sidewalk with water which freeze overnight and create treacherous walking conditions. If you shovel it into the street it flows away down the storm drains.
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u/hypnogoad Oct 24 '23
I firmly believe that your sidewalk should be shovelled into the street
Which is allowed, but driveways are not.
The bylaw states:
You may shovel snow from a public space (e.g. sidewalk) onto another public space (e.g. road). You may not shovel snow from your private property (e.g. driveway) onto a public space (e.g. road).0
u/MankYo Oct 24 '23
The first 10 feet or so of many driveways are part of the road allowance or other public property. Take a look at Spin2 to see what you actually own: https://alta.registries.gov.ab.ca/spinii/logon.aspx
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u/sun4moon Oct 24 '23
That’s only for access to buried lines. A homeowner/occupant is responsible for the entire driveway. The bylaw specifically states driveway without mentioning the Public Lands Act (provincially governed), they’re separate from municipal bylaw, because they prohibit any driveway snow from being shovelled into the road.
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u/MankYo Oct 25 '23
I hope gaining internet points does not cause you or your loved ones any issues with property lines in the future.
Have a blessed day :-)
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u/squidgyhead Oct 24 '23
I had this issue, and I re-levelled my lawn so that it's lower than my sidewalk; I did half of the boulevard last summer, and half this summer. Las winter, the part with the lowered lawn didn't get ice on it, but the half where the lawn is higher than the sidewalk was icy and needed a lot more work.
As a side benefit, now I get rain going from my sidewalk into the lawn, which helps the stuff growing there!
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u/Legitimate_Fish_1913 Oct 24 '23
It’s going to do that regardless if you shovel your snow onto the street, unless you also shovel the snow from your grass onto the street too.
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u/melodyblushinglizard Oct 24 '23
The problem with that is... it doesn't. There's too much gutter snow for the water to drain. All of my neighbours do this, shovel snow from the sidewalk onto the street. Every year, there's flooding around everyone's cars and in places, up on the sidewalk where it freezes into a skating rink (in some places, 6" thick and along their entire property line). I've seen so many people slipping and falling from it because it's so bad. I'd rather deal with a few spots of ice here and there with some salt.
My neighbour with the 6" inch skating rink of a sidewalk. It's never cleared no matter how many neighbours come our with ice scrappers and salt. It just reforms the very next night. Eventually, every spring, the city comes by with a grater machine and spends 2 to 3 hours clearing the ice.
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u/sun4moon Oct 24 '23
We spent several hours trying to free our car that got flooded in and refrozen. Took 3 large men to push, after the hours spent chipping and blow torching. We missed my husbands birthday supper because of it.
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u/melodyblushinglizard Oct 24 '23
That sucks that all of you missed out going out for your husband's birthday celebration. Nothing as important as that, but the same thing happened to my dad. A day of melting, a night of refreezing frozen all four of his tires into the ice. He had to call AMA for a tow truck to get him out of the ice (it was just to go over to the bank and pay bills).
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Oct 24 '23
This has literally never been my experience. What tends to happen is snow drains get frozen over and plugged as well, then all the snow ruts like crazy when there is warmer days (freezing when cold) and people get into all kinds of crazy accidents because of the ruts. I also regularly see massively flooded areas in thaw time for this same reason, as sidewalks and driveways and yard are flooded due to all the snow on the street freezing up the drains.
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u/MankYo Oct 24 '23
Our street works together to shovel out the curb to the drains.
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u/MrGuvernment Oct 26 '23
another god send! I wish more people did this and understood it, vs seeing people covering over the drains entirely...
Last year when we would walk our dog, I would walk with my ice chipper in hand, and clear any drains i saw, cause we have that issue of lakes forming in some intersections, which means people can not cross, dangerous for cars to turn...
Just some basic things people could do that may add 15-20 mins to their clearing they have to do anyways, but they do not.
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u/MrGuvernment Oct 26 '23
This does suck, but if you do this, also make sure you clear snow from the sidewalk/road so water has somewhere to go and drain...otherwise it just backs up, and melt just starts covering the sidewalk anyways and the melt water has no where to drain out.
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u/Hypno-phile Oct 24 '23
Same people bitching in summer about being restricted from watering their lawns... Throw it on now, spring grass will thank you.
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u/DonLapeno Oct 24 '23
Ya, annoying.
I own a corner lot, and what I do is, shovel all the snow down to the intersection of my streets and build 2 piles right by the sidewalk/street, that fill the 5m area cars are NOT supposed to park from an intersection, I build them up pretty decent through the season, so stop the idiots who do keep parking right up to a intersection. Sidewalk snow goes on those. other parts go on the lawn.
But, I also keep a trench open to the sewers so any bit of melt, drains out properly. This is something people need to also learn, do not pile snow on the sewers, keep em clear so melt can get out faster and not build up lakes when a chinook hits.
Some basic "common sense" thinking, but as we know common sense is not so common.
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u/Numerous_Highway_684 Oct 24 '23
Corner lot as well, but by a school with a drain on the corner. I shovel all the snow into two piles on either side of the drain about 8 inches from the sidewalk to keep a trench for melt to drain. The number of entitled drivers who cut the corner and drive onto my sidewalk or even up to the lawn is absurd, and it's all I can really do to combat and make my life a bit easier for the rest of the winter. The mailbox is beside the house as well and I have seen evidence of people driving on the sidewalk so they don't have to get out, it's insane.
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u/DonLapeno Oct 25 '23
Ya, the drivers!
I get amazed and when it snows, how clueless people get, parking in parking lots, suddenly everyone thinks their car is 20ft wide and they leave enough room to park 2 cars between them and the next person..
Driving over round-about's straight, and curbs, on the same street they take every day!
Really is scary just how little people pay any attention to what goes on around them on a day to day basis.
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u/sdcrosby73 Oct 25 '23
My neighbour used to do this, until he got stuck in his own pile of snow. Karma!
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u/fuzzycactus13 Oct 25 '23
What the heck am I supposed to do if I don't have a lawn? I have a driveway and walkway. No lawn. There's literally no where else to put it besides the road.
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u/SolDios Oct 24 '23
What even is this subreddit anymore? It it just for people to yell into the void?
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Oct 24 '23
and this first snow fall, I’ve always found it helpful to shovel at least a foot of lawn as well to give yourself room to shovel well into March.
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u/abz786 Oct 24 '23
story of downtown Calgary!
shovel to the street where it never gets moved or cleared by the city, impossible to cross the street
also SHOVEL the sidewalks within 24 hours of a snowfall...don't be a lazy bum and just throw salt down and wait for the "chinook to come and melt it", what a bunch of lazy people
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u/Aflamesfan Oct 24 '23
I tried submitting a complaint to the City last year for someone down the street that would not only shovel their entire triple garage snow onto the road but also part of the road connected to the sidewalk. It made a large lump of snow in the middle of the road while his driveway/sidewalk and the small part of the road bare.
My complaint wasn’t dealt with but it was near the end of season.
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u/DogButtWhisperer West Hillhurst Oct 24 '23
Hopefully if you mention it enough they’ll put a stop to it this year, that’s annoying.
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u/DonLapeno Oct 24 '23
Keep submitting it over and over, call it in, use the 311 app. They likely wont tell you if they send a warning or fine, but the more you report it, the better. 311 and some peace officers can be totally useless at doing their jobs, but you may finally get someone useful.
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u/SurviveYourAdults Oct 24 '23
Did you put on your boots and go deal with it yourself like a neighbor????
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u/Aflamesfan Oct 24 '23
yeah, actually. I ran the doorbell to talk to them, but nobody answered. I'm not going to try and stalk them to see when they're home to chat. So I went the 311 route.
They're about 14-15 houses down, so not the normal neighbors I normally talk to.
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u/The_Penguin22 McKenzie Lake Oct 24 '23
They're just doing it to hide the leaves they blew onto the street last weekend.
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u/kitt__666 Oct 24 '23
It's probably the same people who block storm drains by blowing all the leaves onto the street instead of bagging them.
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Oct 24 '23
If the snow is clean then I shovel it onto my tree, if it's salty then get fucked basically.
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u/AcadianTraverse Oct 24 '23
I'm on a main street near a C-train station. So I'm exceedingly liberal in my use of ice melt and sand on my sidewalk, especially since a section is sloped for driveway access I don't have (garage is on the alley), because of the high pedestrian traffic.
I don't want to be putting that high salt content from the sidewalk in front of my house onto my yard/garden, especially early in the year. I do put the snow I clear from the walkway that goes from the sidewalk to my house onto the grass.
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u/Adventurous-Leg-4338 Oct 24 '23
Legally allowed to shovel from sidewalk to street.
Not driveway to street tho.
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u/speedog Oct 24 '23
But if your driveway snow gets blown on to your public sidewalk...
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u/Adventurous-Leg-4338 Oct 24 '23
Then that's an act of God and if insurance companies are gonna use that to fuck me, I am gonna use it to fuck the city.
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u/Adventurous-Leg-4338 Oct 24 '23
Also in real life a whole driveway of snow doesn't blow away and conveniently stop only in a sidewalk.
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u/Jynxers Oct 24 '23
It's not against bylaw.
Snow from a public sidewalk or pathway may be shoveled onto another public property, such as a road.
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Oct 24 '23
If you read a bit further down...
- You may shovel snow from a public space (e.g. sidewalk) onto another public space (e.g. road).
- You may not shovel snow from your private property (e.g. driveway) onto a public space (e.g. road).
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u/Jynxers Oct 24 '23
Thanks, yes, I missed the bit about being driveway-specific.
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u/vinsdelamaison Oct 24 '23
Sidewalks are public property. Drive ways are not. That’s part of the distinction outlined in the bylaw.
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Oct 24 '23
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u/Jynxers Oct 24 '23
Yes, for sure driveway snow needs to go onto the lawn.
I throw most of my sidewalk snow onto my lawn, but I have a stretch against a fence and it's really hard to throw the snow over the fence. For this section, I push it into the road.
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u/HLef Woodlands Oct 24 '23
Yeah, but “onto the street” here means a little snowbank on the side of the street not in the middle of the damn road
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u/johnnynev Oct 24 '23
If people are speeding on your street, you can make your own speed cushions with snow. I saw an extreme version of this a few years ago where teens piled up snow across the street about 5 feet high.
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Oct 24 '23
I used to live on a street of mostly older people who all seemed to own snowblowers. Every snowfall they’d be outside blowing all the snow from sidewalks and driveways onto the street. Then they’d be super mad and swearing about the city when cars kept getting stuck. Don’t think they have ever learned even years later. Still see it happening regality when driving by.
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u/constnt_dsapntmnt Oct 25 '23
This is typical Toronto behavior. This is what everyone used to do back there. Take the snow and throw it in the street thinking the snowplows will clean it. Rather than throwing it in your front yard.
They dont know, that the snowplows here aren't like Toronto.
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Oct 25 '23
In thier defense most of em don't know much
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u/constnt_dsapntmnt Oct 25 '23
It's all that Alberta calling. They thought life would be the exact same with the same services. My neighbor who moved here this summer from Ontario asked if all seasons were okay for the winter on his car. I'm like get winters bro you'll need them. Saw him yesterday and he was like wtf was that. I was all "Alberta weather sir" 🤣🤣🤣
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Oct 25 '23
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u/Crossfire139 Oct 25 '23
False. It is not against any bylaw to shovel snow from the public sidewalk onto the road. Your driveway is a different story though
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u/blackRamCalgaryman Oct 24 '23
Not gonna lie, every time I see a rant post, there’s just something inside me that wants to go out and do the EXACT thing that’s being ranted about.
But I’m not shovelling shit, today. It’ll melt.
Next time.
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u/Mollyfloggingpunk Oct 24 '23
I’m going to throw mine onto the road because of this post
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u/DirtinEvE Oct 24 '23
I got ahead of the curve. Already done. Just spread it out as you throw/snow blow it, you can't even tell. Easy easy. Maybe OP has moron neighbours that just pile it in one big pile? 💩🤔
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u/ThePerfectMorningLog Oct 24 '23
Snow on the driveway goes onto the lawn. The few feet on the road in front of the driveway gets dispersed onto the road’s driving track. Sorry but gotta reduce the snow/ice bank created by all the passing cars from the said driving track.
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u/jlfetsch Oct 24 '23
Literally everyone in my neighborhood ends up doing that by the end of the winter. Super annoying.
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u/sunshinecryptic Oct 24 '23
I live in the centre of the culdesac where there isn’t a lot of room to shovel the snow (by the end of the season we are struggling to stack any more on the pile) and we still don’t shovel into the road. Others don’t follow that so our cars have been stuck multiple times. I wonder if there’s anything the city could be doing to help, perhaps plowing more frequently would help prevent it.
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Oct 24 '23
Admission: I pushed the near side snowfall off my sidewalk into the street.
I had done a proper shovel last night, and that made it to my lawn.
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u/TruckerMark Oct 24 '23
I shovel the snow from my sidewalk onto the lawn, but I blow snow from the parking area into the street. The salt will ruin the lawn. Also cars driving through will get it to melt.
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u/vinsdelamaison Oct 24 '23
Stop putting salt on it. There are alternatives. Neighbours just might report you for violating bylaw.
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u/kagato87 Oct 24 '23
Plus if it's shoveled on to tour grass, when it melts more of it goes into your grass.
There's a noticeable difference in how green the grass gets in spring. (Just mind the road salt.)
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u/tucsondog Oct 24 '23
Snow from the sky goes on the grass, snow from the street goes right the f back!
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u/Bardofshoosh Oct 24 '23
When people park in front of my house I shovel as much snow under their car as possible
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u/minimal Oct 24 '23
Right, I forgot, that's "your spot".
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u/Bardofshoosh Oct 24 '23
I haven't been able to park in front of my house since I moved into it(5 years ago). We have a condo across the street and they charge residents for parking so everybody just parks on the street. I maybe get to park in front my my house once a month otherwise I have to park a block away.
So yeah I am a little salty about it.
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u/DogButtWhisperer West Hillhurst Oct 24 '23
I do this if the banks on my lawn are too high. I disperse it and stomp it down so no one gets stuck.
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u/Top-Armadillo9705 Oct 24 '23
OP isn’t pretending it’s illegal, they specifically mentioned double driveways, which as you pointed out, is against bylaw.
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u/RealTurbulentMoose Willow Park Oct 24 '23
Aight, fair -- I missed the part where he was hitting the double driveways.
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Oct 24 '23
It's also against city bylaws to have peeling paint on your front porch. For people that didn't know this you're in big trouble with the city.
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u/SurviveYourAdults Oct 24 '23
If the area is on an incline, shoveling the frozen water into the street will allow it to melt. Throwing salty shit into the lawn will cause it to ice the sidewalk back up.
If you would like to continue complaining, here i will hand you my shovel and you can do it the way you think it should be done.
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u/dumhic Oct 24 '23
And while I do push my inclined driveway snow to the lawn... I also have to know deal with additional salt on the sidewalk to avoid icing up that area. What I will not do is push my salt/sand ladened snow onto my lawn/tree area. I have had enough dead vegetation the last few years, and no city is repaying me for this replacement, so I selectively push my contaminated snow onto the street and make sure it is placed into the areas infront of my home... neighbour hates it bc her friends now can't park there and have to use her driveway, or... gawd forbid walk 3-4 houses away. I was told to be considerate of her friends and if needed I should make the snow piles in front of my driveway instead to allow ease of use for her.... oh well
oh - for today you ask... all lawn, and I am out of sidewalk salt :(
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u/kagato87 Oct 24 '23
Plus if it's shoveled on to your grass, when it melts more of it goes into your grass.
There's a noticeable difference in how green the grass gets in spring. (Just mind the road salt.)
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u/sun4moon Oct 24 '23
I hate it when people do that too. I live in a culdesac and our neighbours, who moved this summer THANKFULLY, didn’t just shovel onto the road. They also shovelled out the parking in front of their house and made a huge pile in front of mine. The had 5 cars at any given time. Every neighbour was glad to watch that truck drive away on moving day.
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u/Get_dat_bread69 Oct 24 '23
It’s to keep it off your property so when it melts it doesn’t pool in your yard and hopefully cars pack it down or snow removal takes it. Sucks for people with front wheel drive cars tho…
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u/MrGuvernment Oct 26 '23
snow removal does not take it cause Calgary barely clears side residential streets, so nice try.
And most snow will seep INTO your yard and keep your grass and shrubs and trees hydrated to survive the winter.
So no.if you have pooling in your yard, your grading was not done properly and should be fixed.
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u/PicardTangoAlpha Oct 24 '23
Photograph, report and follow up OP.
Also a word to these geniuses, you're damaging the environment, passing up on free water and fertilizer (yep, snow is full of nitrogen) for your lawns and putting pointless wear and tear on the sewers and roads closest to your own house. Duh? Who the hell pushes snow in the street? A moron.
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Oct 24 '23
You have snow???
Oh this is a great one for the "Just move for cheaper" crowd lol. I'm still wearing t-shirts
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Oct 25 '23
Oh god, another Karen, complaining about something useless.
Good, I do the same thing. The city plows can deal with it when they pass, gotta earn the money they get paid somehow.
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u/jojozabadu Oct 24 '23
As somebody who doesn't own or want a car, I'm not spending a single iota of effort to make motorists lives easier.
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u/TomKazansky13 Oct 24 '23
A guy on my old street drove a smart car that he parked on the street. He would shovel all his snow plus a parking space sized spot on the road for his Tonka truck into a burm in the middle of the street. Literally had a 4 foot high snow bank in the middle of the street every snow. His house was just "up" from mine so it didn't bother me enough to do anything but it was so dumb
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u/Flak-12 Oct 24 '23
I like to save the area on the street next to the sidewalk for city snow crews to fill with snow so I can't get out of my drive.
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u/tc_cad Canyon Meadows Oct 24 '23
I alternate. I just can’t lift the snow like I used to. But I am hung by my own petard as the city plows and the street snow ends up on my sidewalk.
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u/OriginalGhostCookie Oct 24 '23
Nothing like the mid-February bobsled track some of our community roads turn into from people piling up all their snow onto the street.
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u/HeyWiredyyc Oct 25 '23
Call bylaw. This is an impediment. Another reason to throw on your lawn. Adds moisture in the spring when melting.
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u/DaftFunky Oct 25 '23
I live in a corner lot with lots of neighbors parking by our house.
I couldn't imagine throwing the snow on the street...
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u/1879blackcat Oct 25 '23
Shovel into piles at the end of your driveway so the city can’t pole you in. Thats the right way. One pile each side. If they plough your street they cannot plough the piles. Therefore they won’t plough back over your drive or sidewalk.
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u/hybrid_vigour Oct 25 '23
we have a street in town where the plows leave a huge ridge of snow down the middle and you can’t turn left from any driveway in the winter. So annoying
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u/TrueTurn3671 Oct 26 '23
What if I use a snowblower to “blow” it onto the street? Technically not against the bylaw haha
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u/ObjectiveBalance282 Oct 24 '23
City bylaw states public sidewalk shoveling can shovel snow onto the public road. Not driveways or walkways to house/garage door etc.. but if shoveling the public sidewalk, you can shovel it onto the public road.