City Council · July 25, 2023 · Item 5.2
Approve the draft by-law and any required amendments to the Traffic By-law Number (2022) - 20698 to permit the operation of personal use e-scooters effective July…
Main motion under the agenda item E-scooter By-law - 2023-276
Carried (12 to 0)
12 in favour, 0 against — unanimous
What was voted on
The motion in its exact words, as recorded in the minutes.
That Council approve the draft by-law and any required amendments to the Traffic By-law Number (2022) - 20698 to permit the operation of personal use e-scooters effective July 25, 2023.
Moved by Councillor Goller, seconded by Councillor Busuttil.
How the room voted
In favour (12)
- Allt
- Busuttil
- Caron
- Caton
- Chew
- Downer
- Gibson
- Goller
- Guthrie
- Klassen
- O'Rourke
- Richardson
What council was given
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- E-Scooter Bylaw - 2023-276.pdf
Council is asked to pass a by-law, and amend the Traffic By-law, allowing personal e-scooters on Guelph streets as of August 1, 2023. E-scooters would be permitted only on streets under set conditions. Staff did no community consultation and set no measures of success. Guelph Police say they have limited resources, so City by-law staff would lead enforcement at no expected added cost.
- Escooter Diagram.pdf
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What was said
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1:37:39Council, do you mind if I just jump back to the e scooter thing for a sec? I'm only just trying to respect
1:37:46Okay. Yeah, I just want to respect our bylaw staff that are here that would answer any questions if need be
1:37:52So I think and there's no delegations. I think we could probably take care of this pretty quickly
1:37:56Okay
1:37:56So the only thing with the e scooter bylaw is it has to be tabled here with a little there was an administrative
1:38:03error on the date because the bylaw
1:38:07In the memo uh stated august 1st by accident
1:38:10But the bylaws are actually set up for us for an approval for the july 25th. So councillor Goller you're going to table the memo
1:38:20suggested from
1:38:22staff and it has
1:38:24Our clerks have corrected the july 25th date. Okay
1:38:27So it's moved by yourself seconded by I think councillor bruce until said yep
1:38:32And is there anything on this then any questions?
1:38:35No quite oh
1:38:37A comment. Okay. How will no questions then okay comment go ahead
1:38:40Thank you your worship. I wanted to thanks that for their their work on this
1:38:44We asked for something with a quick turnaround time and then based on
1:38:47Delegations at the beginning of the month we asked for more changes
1:38:50So I really appreciate the time that you've taken to to review this and to to consider including the
1:38:58Multi-use paths and cycling tracks. Thank you very much
1:39:03Mayor Guthrie, can I just
1:39:05Respond for one moment. Yeah, of course
1:39:07Councillor Goller, which is simply to say that I do want to give credit to Doug Godfrey and to Dustin Gronk who
1:39:11Are sitting to my right who did the bulk of the work on this
1:39:12But I do also want to acknowledge staff in jane's area within IDE
1:39:16And then a huge shout out to our staff in our legal department because they turned the bylaw around
1:39:20quicker than we normally ask them to do and they I just wanted to make sure that they also got that recognition
1:39:27Thank you so much
1:39:29All right, I'll call the vote then is anyone against uh against the the east leaders
1:39:35Nobody okay, so that's unanimous and aren't you glad I did that first for you
1:39:40So you guys can go home. Okay. Thank you for your time appreciate it
1:39:45Okay, I think we are at the end here
1:39:47and
1:39:48So it is the last one
1:39:51And it is in regards to the home for good campaign
1:39:55Um specifically for around supportive housing
1:39:59uh
1:40:01Well, let me go to councillor
1:40:05Let me let me get this just to do it right. Let me get it tabled first
1:40:09And then I can maybe do a preamble just for a second if that's fair. Just to start us off
1:40:15Um
1:40:17Or did sorry some people are saying they just want a break for a second. Do you want it?
1:40:21Yeah, do you want a five minute break? Yeah, let's do that. Let's just take a five minute break
1:40:25And then we'll we'll come back
1:40:27At 8 at 8 15. I think is what I have
1:40:30So that's like a seven minute break. Yeah, let's just start at 8 15. Okay, and uh
1:40:35And then that way this is the last item and then we're we're good to go. Okay, so take a seven minute break
1:40:39We'll see you back here in just a few moments
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