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Where we work
Toronto and the GTA. The sidewalk rule changes at every municipal boundary, and it decides whether your frontage is in the quote. Each page below carries the local bylaw.
City of Toronto
Snow Removal in Toronto
Toronto is the one GTA city where the sidewalk is mostly not your problem any more. Since 2022 City crews plow nearly every public sidewalk once 2 cm falls. Your driveway, walk and steps are still yours, and Chapter 719 puts a clock on them.
City of Toronto
Snow Removal in Scarborough
Scarborough has the driveways the rest of Toronto envies and the windrows to match. Wide postwar lots, double aprons and corner properties mean more square footage to clear than anywhere else in the city, and a heavier pile at the curb after the street plow passes.
City of Toronto
Snow Removal in North York
North York runs from ravine-lot estates in the Bridle Path to townhouse blocks off Sheppard and condo towers along Yonge. The driveways are long, the walks are longer, and the property managers along the corridor buy their snow contracts in September.
City of Toronto
Snow Removal in Etobicoke
Etobicoke gets the lake-effect edge of every storm off Lake Ontario and has the industrial lots to prove it. Homeowners here have wide suburban driveways; the plazas and warehouses around the 427 and Queensway have acres of asphalt and a fire route that has to stay open.
City of Pickering
Snow Removal in Pickering
Pickering hands the sidewalk back to the homeowner. Under the Ice and Snow Clearing By-law you have 24 hours after a snowfall to clear the sidewalk in front of your property, and the City plows only a list of designated sidewalk locations. That makes the sidewalk part of most Pickering quotes.
Town of Ajax
Snow Removal in Ajax
In Ajax the Town plows about 150 of its 400 kilometres of sidewalk, mostly on Regional and main Town roads. The other 250 kilometres are cleared by the people who live beside them, within 24 hours, and the windrow is theirs too.
Town of Whitby
Snow Removal in Whitby
Whitby gives owners 24 hours to clear the sidewalks and walkways bordering their property, and if it is not done the Town may do it and bill you. Brooklin adds open fields and drifting; the lakeshore adds wind. Both add up to a contract that covers more than the driveway.
City of Oshawa
Snow Removal in Oshawa
Oshawa is the one GTA city that publishes exactly what an uncleared sidewalk costs: $75 the first time, $175 the second time in a year, $275 after that, plus the City's bill if it does the work. The deadline is midnight after the first day the snowfall ends.
City of Markham
Snow Removal in Markham
Markham plows all of its sidewalks once 5 cm has fallen, so a Markham homeowner is not paying anyone for the sidewalk. What is left is the driveway, the plow pile across it, the front walk and the steps, and a lot of the driveways here are long.
City of Richmond Hill
Snow Removal in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill does more of the public side than almost any GTA municipality: it plows about 750 kilometres of sidewalk at 5 cm and cuts a one-car opening in the windrow at more than 50,000 residential driveways. The private side, the whole driveway, walk and steps, is where a contract earns its keep.
City of Vaughan
Snow Removal in Vaughan
Vaughan offers windrow clearing to every home fronting a City road, and plows the sidewalks on its sidewalk map at 5 cm. It also tells residents in plain words that shovelling snow onto the road is illegal. What stays with the homeowner is the driveway beyond the City's opening, the walk and the steps.
City of Mississauga
Snow Removal in Mississauga
Mississauga changed the deal for the 2025/26 winter: every City sidewalk is now plowed, and every single, double and shared driveway on a public street gets a windrow opening. Below 5 cm the City salts and does not plow at all. The driveway, walk and steps remain the homeowner's, and that is the contract.
City of Brampton
Snow Removal in Brampton
Brampton is the most demanding GTA municipality for a homeowner. The City does not clear driveway windrows, plows only arterial, transit and park sidewalks, and requires every other sidewalk cleared by 11 a.m. the day after a snowfall. A Brampton contract covers all three.