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Policy 0010
Winter Service Operations Policy
Department:
Infrastructure and Planning Services Department
Division:
Engineering Division
Section/Function:
Public Works - Roads
Approval Level:
Council
Effective Date:
October 26, 2020
Revision #:
3
1.0
Purpose
1.1.
The purpose of this Policy is to acknowledge the City's winter maintenance
administrative procedures, for snow removal and ice removal on City maintained roads,
sidewalks and bicycle lanes are in compliance with Ontario Regulation 239/02:
Minimum Maintenance Standards for Municipal Highways.
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/020239. These Minimum Maintenance
Standards have been established to ensure the general safety of the public and to
provide continued accessibility in compliance with the Municipal Act, 2001.
1.2.
The purpose of this Policy is to identify any levels of service beyond those required
under the Municipal Act, 2001
2.0
Application
2.1.
This Policy applies to all individuals who have responsibility for overseeing, directing,
supervising, or conducting winter service operations on behalf of the City of
Peterborough.
2.2.
Winter service operations include snow clearing, de-icing, snow storage, snow disposal,
and patrol/inspection.
3.0
Definitions/Acronyms
City - The Corporation of the City of Peterborough, its agencies, boards and commissions.
Council - The elected City Council of the City of Peterborough.
Procedure
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4.0
Policy Statement(s)
4.1
The City will establish, maintain and update Winter Service Standards to guide
resource allocations and winter service response decisions.
.1
The City's Winter Service Standards for snow clearing on roadways,
sidewalks and bicycle lanes will be in accordance with the Minimum
Maintenance Standards for Municipal Highways, Ontario Regulation
239/02 of the Municipal Act, 2001.
.2
Any modifications to levels of service, beyond those required to meet
the Minimum Maintenance Standards for Municipal Highways, will be
approved by Council.
.3
The City will clear paved trails within the City limit as the Minimum
Maintenance Standards does not include a standard for Winter
Maintenance of trails.
.4
Resources for winter control operations are assigned in priority order of
roads, sidewalk operations, bicycle lanes, bus stops, trails.
.5
The City acknowledges that there may be times when, due to the severity of a
winter storm, the Winter Service Levels, as defined by the Minimum
Maintenance Standards, cannot be achieved within the usual time allotted.
Under such circumstances, the City will recover winter service response to the
set service level as soon as feasible.
5.0
Appendix, Related Documents & Links
Note: All references refer to the current version, as may be amended from time to time.
5.1.
Pertinent Resources:
- Highway Traffic Act
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08
- Municipal Act, 2001
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/01m25
- Ontario Regulation 239/02 Minimum Maintenance Standards for Municipal
Highways https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/020239.
Procedure
Policy 0010
Winter Service Operations Policy
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- Report USPW08-013 "Winter Services Operations Policy"
Appendix A: Road Classification Based on Minimum Maintenance Standards
Appendix B: Winter Service Standards and Performance Outcome
5.2. Related Policies
N/A
5.3.
Related Procedures:
N/A
5.4.
Related Forms:
N/A
5.5.
Miscellaneous:
N/A
6.0
Amendments/Reviews
Date
(yyyy-mm-dd)
Section #
Amended
Comments
2008-11-10
N/A
Committee of the Whole Report No. 24 of a Meeting of
November 10,
2008 recommending that Winter Service Operations
Policy in Report USPW08-013 be endorsed.
2008-11-17
N/A
City Council approved Item 9 of Committee of the Whole
Report No. 24 of a Meeting of November 10, 2008
recommending that Winter Service Operations Policy in Report
USPW08-013 be endorsed.
Procedure
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2013-01-01
N/A
Revision #1 - No changes were made to the content of the
Policy. Policy revised to move to new Policy Template (i.e.
Policy Statements moved to Section 2.0, Application moved to
Section 3.0, Definitions moved to Section 4.0) and to move to
new protocol for showing defined terms (i.e. capitalizing the
first letters).
2020-10-26
N/A
Revision #2 - Council approved recommendations in Report
IPSENG20-027 of a meeting of October 26, 2020 to align
sidewalk and bicycle lane winter maintenance with the
changes to Ontario Regulation 239/02 as amended by Ontario
Regulation 366/18; Minimum Maintenance Standards for
Municipal Highways and to update the Policy to include the
winter Maintenance of paved trails as per current practice.
Policy moved to updated Policy Template; (Section 2.0 moved
to Section 4.0, Section 3.0 moved to Section 2.0, Section 4.0
moved to Section 3.0).
2021-12-01
N/A
Revision #3 - No changes were made to the content of the
Policy. Links in Section 5.1 - Pertinent Resources have been
updated. Policy document format has been updated to
become compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with
Disabilities Act (AODA) Regulation 191/11 Integrated
Accessibility Standards.
Next Review Date:
2025-10-01