There were a few bylaws and bylaw amendments making it to city council Monday.

One of those was the ridesharing bylaw, which had to be in place for any ridesharing app to make an indentation in Moose Jaw.

We might not expect like Uber and Lyft to come in overnight, according to Mayor Fraser Tolmie

“They won’t approach cities under 50,000, and I know we’re under that mark,” said Tolmie. “But they are in collaboration with other ridesharing apps that will and so we’re obviously going to be trying to strum up a market and look to bring someone into our community.

The ridesharing bylaw passed third reading and the city will be rolling out in plan in the coming months.

Also passing third and final readings were the smoking bylaw, noise bylaw and building bylaw amendments.

Mayor Fraser Tolmie said there are positives of the noise bylaw, which affects downtown businesses and residences.

“We want them to coexist and we understand there’s been a culture change,” he said. “This city was built on storefronts with apartments on top and sometimes the use of different buildings changes. Therefore, we want to acknowledge that but we also want people to cohabitate and get along.”

Tolmie said the new bylaw amendments bring the city in line with other cities. When it came to the smoking bylaw changes, Tolmie voted in favour of the changes to the bylaw and said they have been working on changes to the bylaw since 2017.

“This has been a change that has been prompted with cannabis becoming legal, and we’ve had to look at our smoking bylaws,” said Tolmie. “We’ve amended it accordingly. And we also know that there are new methods, such as vaping, and so that was brought into consideration.

Tolmie said the city wants to promote a healthy lifestyle.

The amendments also present further restrictions on where people can smoke and will be brought into force in the coming months.