@jsherk, it's a city by-law ticket, and it's specifically referring to by-law 2003-499 5 (1) (Park in a designated fire route). Update on our street being a fire route: I contacted the city this morning, and it turns out that their online documentation hasn't been updated for 13 years, so the by-law that's readily available to the public is extremely out of date. Our street is an official fire route, but the only way to find that out is to request the original by-law and all of the amendments through the city archives. She was putting a request through to the supervisors to update this (and ma...

Okay, I'd need to be faster to consider going inside to get something "loading". One down, two to go! If this turns out to be a legitimate fire rote, I'll pay the ticket.

Any help on the other points?

P.S.: In this case, yes! Some neighbours saw me measuring the street and came over to chat, and it turns out she monitors the mailboxes (also on the private street), and has threatened to give people tickets while they were getting their mail.

I live on a private street in an Ottawa suburb (a narrower street with no sidewalks), and ran home before lunch to get my laptop. The whole street is marked as a fire route, but I figured since I had never gotten a ticket for running in and back out, I'd be fine. I was inside for less than 5 minutes (we have security cameras so I can confirm the time) to pack up my laptop when my neighbour rang our doorbell to tell me that I was getting a ticket. By the time I ran outside, the vulture had already placed a ticket on my car. The time on the ticket matches the time on the security camera when I g...