"In Richmond, Mayor Malcolm Brodie said council may take a second look at its bylaw requiring businesses and apartment owners to shovel their sidewalks, but not single-family homeowners. They had been exempted in the past, he said, because of a concern about penalizing older people who might find that task hard. Now, he said, council might reconsider that. “We’ll take a look at the record this year.”

Richmond does not even enforce the bylaw requiring business and condo/apartment sidewalks and parking lots to be shoveled.  How does it hope to enforce bylaws against sf detached homeowners?

It's been WEEKS of sidewalk snow and ice in front of  some commercial/strata complexes.  How's that Richmond bylaw working out when it comes to compliance? 

Richmond does not even enforce bylaws restricting turning your house into an illegal 10 room hotel, or operating hotels on agricultural land. Now they are going to make sure they what - shovel the sidewalk in front of their illegal business?