# Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 2 and 10 to direct Commissioner of Dept. of Transportation to implement "Plow the Sidewalks Pilot Program" and to extend end date of program working group to December 31, 2026

Clerk's short name: Sidewalk Pilot Program with extension

- Record number: **O2025-0015574**
- Type: Ordinance; category: Municipal Code Amendments
- Status: Final
- Sponsor: [Daniel La Spata](https://www.chicagopolitics.org/ward/1) (1st Ward)
- Committee: Joint Committee: Pedestrian & Traffic Safety; Transportation & Public Way
- Submitted Date: Feb 19, 2025
- Introduction Date: Feb 19, 2025
- Final Action Date: Oct 16, 2025
- Official record: [Office of the City Clerk](https://chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matterId=6C0A3ECB-E3EE-EF11-BE20-001DD83045C9)

## Impact report

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This item would send a proposal to a joint committee that would direct the Transportation Commissioner to run a Plow the Sidewalk Pilot Program and extend the program's working group to December 31, 2026.

**Who it affects**

- **Pedestrians**: The proposal concerns a pilot program to plow sidewalks, which affects people who walk on city sidewalks.
- **Chicago Department of Transportation**: The Commissioner of Transportation would be directed to carry out the Plow the Sidewalk Pilot Program.
- **Plow the Sidewalk program working group**: The working group's end date would be extended to December 31, 2026.
- **City Council committees**: The Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety and the Committee on Transportation and Public Way would review the proposal together as a joint committee.

**What changes**

- The proposal is being sent to a joint committee for review, not passed into law yet.
- If later passed, the Transportation Commissioner would be directed to run a sidewalk plowing pilot program.
- If later passed, the program working group would continue until December 31, 2026.
- The Committee on Committees and Rules voted 27 to 18 for this referral.

## Lobbying and money

> Computed links; money near a vote is not evidence that it influenced the vote.

**Who lobbied on it**

- Access Living Of Metropolitan Chicago: SUPPORT PASSAGE OF SIDEWALK SNOW CLEARANCE PILOT (1 filing, Jul 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024; Laura Saltzman; matched by semantic embedding)
- Access Living Of Metropolitan Chicago: ADVOCATED FOR SIDEWALK SNOW CLEARANCE PILOT (1 filing, Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025; Laura Saltzman; matched by semantic embedding)

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