Hi Simon, Generally, you are right. Not knowing a by-law cannot be an excuse. If you park a car at a road, which is supposed to be a fire route, let say at the very first time, and the property management arranged its towing, this is one story. However, if you have been parking it there for 2 years in front of the building security eyes, and others have been doing the same, and this wasn't an issue for the property management until the very last few weeks, they have actually broken the equitable estoppel practice towing your car and this could be very negotiable in a court. If they decided to ...

Another quotation from By Law 1-96 "A private roadway providing access to or from a designated building and where fire access route signs have been erected, is hereby designated as a fire route." So having a sign seems to be enough to make a route a fire route. The road in question is 7 meters wide. A car is approx 1.8 meters, so a half of that car was on the designed fire route. But people don't carry a tape-line with them to measure who wide each road is. Moreover, they are not really supposed to know all by laws. The property management should put a no parking sign on the opposite...

Thanks for your reply! Thornhill is the City of Vaughan and their Fire Route definition by BY-LAW NUMBER 1-96 is: "Fire Route" means a private roadway not less than 6 meters wide, providing vehicular access to or from a designated building and designated by this By-law as a fire route and shall include any part of a parking lot designated by visible markings or markers as a fire route. Not sure what "shall include any part of a parking lot designated by visible markings or markers as a fire route" means, but likely if a whole road is only 6 meters wide (I didn't measure but...

Hi, My friends live in a condo building in Thornhill with the main entrance looking to a 2-way road. Actually that road ends at the end of the building. There is a typical "Fire Route, No Parking" sign stick to the building that I believe means you cannot park on the side of the road along the building. Does this mean that you are not allowed to park on the opposite side of the road either? There are no other signs on the opposite side. The problem is that for years people have been parking on that side of the road leaving the build road side empty for emergency vehicles, but last da...