The weather is cooperating, so the city has announced that the annual Street Sweeping program has kicked off on Monday.
Residents living in the first scheduled communities should already see signs in their neighbourhood indicating their sweeping date.
The communities scheduled for Monday include Carrington, Redstone, Varsity, New Brighton, and Fairview.
Calgarians can also find their scheduled sweeping date by visiting calgary.ca/sweep to use the address lookup tool. Residents are also encouraged to sign up for email and text reminders.
If you were the first to get your road swept last year, it’ll probably be different this time, according to the manager of road maintenance, Chris Hewitt.
“We’ve broken the city into three blocks, and we rotate those each year so that, you know, there’s never someone who’s first every year,” he said.
“You know, you’re going to be first one year, towards the middle another year, and towards the end of the third year.”
Residential street sweeping runs Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
However, a parking ban is in place, and vehicles must be moved to sweep, the city says.
Any vehicle that has not been removed from the street during the ban is subject to a ticket. Calgary Parking uses camera vehicles for enforcement, and tickets will arrive through the mail.
If vehicles are towed to a nearby space, the vehicle owner will be issued a street sweeping ticket. If they are towed to the Municipal Impound Lot, the vehicle owner pays the ticket, tow, and impound fee.
A ticket paid within 10 days will be $80; paid before 30 days will be $90; and after 30 days will be $120.
Residential street sweeping will take place through June, clearing more than 17,000 lane kilometres of roadway. Major roads are typically swept overnight.
Calgary’s spring clean-up program comes at a cost of approximately $7 million.