Iqaluit’s ‘unsightly’ yards to receive bylaw scrutiny
Officers to visit neighbourhoods and give notices to clean up trash, pet waste and derelict vehicles
Spare tires, leftover construction materials and other objects must be cleaned up by property owners, according to Iqaluit’s unsightly land bylaw. (Photo by Daron Letts)
It is time to clean up, says the City of Iqaluit.
Bylaw officers will be visiting neighbourhoods this spring to enforce the city’s unsightly land bylaw.
The city announced the initiative Wednesday in a news release.
As a result of the bylaw visits, some property owners may receive notices informing them they must clean up trash, pet waste, derelict vehicles, leftover construction materials or other messes covered by the bylaw.
Those property owners will have 30 days to comply from the time the clean-up orders are delivered.
“Residents do not need to wait for a notice to begin cleanup,” said city spokesperson Geoffrey Byrne in the city’s news release.
“Small efforts across individual properties make a noticeable difference in helping keep our neighbourhoods clean, safe, and welcoming.”
Unsurprised that the the city and public housing and probably other orgs helped ghettoize neighborhoods and now are going to fine the residents in those neighborhoods.
Let’s not pretend “public housing” is the problem. Plenty of public housing tenants in Iqaluit and across Nunavut keep clean, tidy homes and yards.
The issue is behaviour! Littering, neglect, and treating shared spaces like someone else’s problem. That goes directly against Avatittinnik Kamatsiarniq, the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit principle of respecting and caring for the land, animals, and environment.
And let’s be honest: it costs nothing to pick up litter, tidy your yard, and not be a slob!
Iqaluit is our home, not a garbage dump with a view.
Clean it up. Keep it clean. Show some respect!
Please elaborate on how those organizations ghettoized these neighborhoods? Did they do the same to the entire territory, because this appears to be the norm all over.
Hope so.
You’ll never pry my unsightly collection from me.
HORDER !!!
I don’t know what Idiot is using my name I never made this post.
Is this really a big issue, The city of Iqaluit is the worst offender, the dump is and has been a disgrace for years, due to complete incompetence. Our trash blows from our dump in every direction, for miles. Building sites let insulation and other material, blow from their work sites. Housing let’s trash build up all winter, blameing tenants for under designed facilities for multiplexes. Arctic Ventures have no trashcan, never had. Handicap ramps are not maintained in many businesses. We have dust that continually blows from the crusher site near the airport. Trust me I have only scratched the surface. My point is that what standards will be applied, and are they reasonable, given our environment, culture and priorities?
“Those property owners will have 30 days to comply from the time the clean-up orders are delivered.”
And if they don’t? Then what? Will these notices be as useful as the “$150 fine for public drinking signs” around town? How many people do you know have actually been fined for that? Unless actual consequences come from not complying, I doubt much action will be done. The people who would clean up their property without threat of disciplinary action probably already maintain their property.
I hope I’m wrong though. Nunavut has the potential to look like beautiful Nordic countries, but is hindered by people giving no care for their property’s appearance.
Any greenlander that has visited nunavut goes back home with the memory of the amount of uncontained trash across the territory. In greenland, and in other Nordic countries, leaving litter on your property, or just being plain untidy, is huge sign of disrespect and is not tolerated by the Community.
Most Greenlanders think of us as the Hillbilly hick cousins.
They are so far ahead of us in so many ways.
Your post points out the hypocracy of applying fines to victims of the city’s mismanagement of the dump, emptying their own public trash bins or force businesses to provide public bins. We pick up beer cans, and tim Horton cups.
They tryna de-rez the rez? Iqaluit strong 💪
What are the city and the GN doing to reinstate some form of beer can collection rebate? Since that program stopped the tundra and all of town is a disaster of beer can middens. Even if not recycled – the beer store or somewhere else should take them back for a small rebate – it incentivizes civil behaviour. Carrot not stick.
I do not see Pepsi cans thrown everywhere. We have a public drinking problem plain and simple! What happened before was a few can collectors picked up after these littering drunks! There is just as much Pepsi and pop drinking in this town yet its beer cans that litter the tundra and streets. Beer store should close for 2 weeks after community clean up and you will see the trash stop!
Has the City issued their public clean up and large item garbage pick up schedule?
Thank – you CITY OF IQALUIT.
Now to get the Government of Nunavut to clean up the ALCOHOL Cans there selling that are blanketing this town.
Thank you.
The city needs to fine Northview for all the junk they let tenants dump on their property. Old vehicles, garbage bags, pallets everything that’s garbage. Then things will be cleaned up.