New by-law sparks debate

To the Editor

On May 31 2010, the citizen of the Town of Strathmore got a surprise – those ones who own a trailer and had it parked on their own property (driveway), were given a 72 hour by the town Bylaw to move it to their back yards or else where.

Unfortunately I was one of those citizens, so I tried to disputed as best of my knowledge, but did not get any results from the bylaw officer. It was explain to me that my drive way is my front yard and according to the bylaw, which is under traffic bylaw, is a hazard to traffic (which traffic?) and unsightly to my neighborhood (it’s clean and only is three years old) and a public hazard (it is not on any body’s property but my own). It has been five years since I move to the Town of Strathmore and this is the first time ever that I was told to move my trailer out of my property (driveway).

I understand if my trailer was on my driveway all year long, but only is on the driveway during camping season.

What is the Town trying to do? Trying to make us move to another municipality, when they promoting the town to be a great town to raise families?

There are individuals that have their unlicensed vehicles on their driveways and nothing has been done to them. There are homes under constructions for more than a year, so where can we draw the line when it comes to being fair and how to apply bylaws?

It’s pretty sad that we pay property taxes and we are told what to do in our own property.

I encourage those individuals to come together and meet with town council or/and sign a petition to the town to see if we can solve this problem in a courtesy way.

I also was told that if I did not want to move my trailer to just wait for the ticket and ask the judge to explain it to me when clearly states that is a traffic bylaw and not a property law. Come on, do we really want to keep spending our taxpayer money?

Come on everyone and try to solve this matter as a town and not alone. Talk to your neighbors – get this ball rolling and maybe together we can make a difference.

Maria
Strathmore