Air gives us life!
You can help keep it clean and our neighbourhoods healthy - go idle free.
Often idling cannot be helped, for example, if you are warming up your vehicle while clearing your windshield or dropping off the kids at the rink.
Just as often, there are situations when idling is not necessary. People are often seen running their vehicles while waiting to pick up a child at school or while running into a store. Unnecessary idling gets you nowhere; instead‚ it wastes money and fuel, and produces greenhouse gases that lead to climate change.
Did you know? Turning off your car while parked in a school zone can radically reduce children's exposure to toxic pollutants.
As part of our Sustainable Community strategy, Okotoks has recently introduced a new idle-free bylaw.
The newly-approved idle-free bylaw puts measures in place we can all follow to benefit our community. The intent of this bylaw is to limit excessive idling. It’s important to know the bylaw has rules in place that change along with the temperature outside. Exceptions have been written into Bylaw to take extenuating circumstances into effect.