Thank you for helping us to create our new local laws (by-laws) for the City of PAE.

Council creates by-laws (local laws) to manage Council-specific issues. Many by-laws are in place to protect the comfort and safety of our community, or to prevent damage to Local Government Land. Many by-laws we cannot change, however some can be adjusted based on feedback from the community.

Thanks to your input, our reviewed By-laws were endorsed by Council at the meeting on 12 July 2022 and came into effect in December 2022.

By-laws must be reviewed by the Legislative Review Committee (LRC). In November 2022, the LRC wrote to us raising concerns with the language used in some of our clauses and ask us to consider modernising the language. As the changes requested cause minimal impact to the By-laws themselves, we agreed to make these amendments, which required mandatory community engagement.

We engaged on the requested amendments during April and May 2023 and By-law No. 9 Amended Local Government Land By-law, was endorsed by Council at the Ordinary Council Meeting on 13 June 2023.

Note: The by-law review process does not include a review into our on- and off-leash rules for dogs. A separate consultation is reviewing this.