Keep it Clean & Safe

Everyone has a role to play in keeping our downtown clean

The 'Keep It Clean & Safe' program helps to maintain clean, inviting, and safe streets in Kingston’s downtown core. This program is a partnership between the Downtown Kingston BIA, the City of Kingston with assistance from downtown Kingston businesses and their employees, property owners, and residents.

Downtown Kingston is a popular destination for locals and visitors to the area. We need your help to preserve our historic downtown, enhance its beauty for our residents, businesses, and visitors and create a healthy, safe and inclusive community.

Help keep our streets clean

Keep the area outside of your business clean every day:

• Wash down and sweep the sidewalk
• Maintain facade on all sides of your building clean & tidy
• Keep patios tidy and clear of drifting garbage
• pick up stray garbage on the sidewalk and parking spots
• clear out gas line area
• check alleyways for garbage
• tend to areas close to your location ie. flower beds

Be a part of ensuring that downtown is always looking its best, helping to attract more people to the core area to shop and live, to protect the investment the City has made to the infrastructure and surface renewal, and to provide Kingstonians and visitors with a better experience.

Partnership program details:

• City by-law officer dedicated to the downtown core
• Street sweeping machines
• Twice-monthly sidewalk and street pressure washes
• Year-round Street Crew (cleaning stray garbage, garbage receptacles, weeding etc)
• Summer student Street Crew (events and other jobs)
• TerraCycle cigarette butt recycling program with the City of Kingston