A maintenance route parking ban is a temporary parking restriction on roads designated as maintenance routes. Parking bans allow crews to work on the roadways more efficiently when they don’t have to operate around parked cars.

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Maintenance Routes and Parking Bans
A parking ban is a declaration by the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) based on maintenance requirements in Okotoks, which will restrict vehicles from parking on maintenance routes for a period of time.
Anyone parking on a maintenounce route.
- When maintenance is necessary, the Town will declare a parking ban along the impacted roadways. The Town will try to provide 48 hours notice.
- Permanent signage has been placed around Town to identify maintenance routes. When maintenance is necessary, a parking ban will be declared for a specified time on specified roads.
- Messaging will be sent out to the community via the Town website and social media channels.
- Information will also be sent out to the local media and be broadcasted on the Eagle 100.9 radio station.
- A parking ban could be declared for street sweeping typically during the months from mid-April to the end of June.
- A parking ban could be declared during any major snow fall event when snow clearing, snow removal and sanding operations are required for community safety.
- A parking ban could be declared for road construction or other maintenance work, such as pothole repairs etc.
If a vehicle continues to park on the street during parking bans, repeat offenders could face a verbal warning, a violation ticket in the amount of $150, and/or have your vehicle being towed.
You will need to find an alternate place for your vehicle when a ban is in place, such as parking on another nearby street that doesn’t have any parking restrictions in place.
- Parking bans create efficiencies for all road maintenance requirements, including snow clearing, street sweeping and road construction operations.
- Parking bans also aid in consistent enforcement of vehicles parked indefinitely on roadways.
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