Kitchener is looking to do the same and will vote on the issue on Monday

If you are disputing a parking ticket, it could soon take a lot less time to reach a resolution with the city.

Waterloo is pushing forward with the Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS), approved by city council on Monday, which the city plans to roll out the first week of June.

Instead of parking tickets going to court, you would show up at city hall and sit down with a hearing officer in a meeting room.

"It makes the process a lot less intimidating, less formal. It's really about just having a discussion. If someone wants to talk about the reason why they got a parking ticket and if there's extenuating circumstances, we can have a discussion, as opposed to the more formalized courtroom." said Shane Turner, Director of Municipal Enforcement Services with the City of Waterloo.

It can take up to nine months for a parking dispute to even reach court, Turner tells Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke on 570 NEWS, with AMPS they're hoping to reduce that to two months.

He says the lengthy delays are one of the reasons they are moving to this system.

"We have a relatively high volume of parking tickets in the two cities, that could make their way into the court system. So we're looking at something that allows for the relatively minor bylaw offences to be moved out of that court system." said Turner. "And it will overall, help the regional ... court system in terms of being able to reallocate that time to perhaps more serious matters."

Turner also says the system could be applied to other bylaw violations in the future. "We are starting with parking, because that's the one where we've got the highest volume,"

Kitchener is expected to follow suit.

City council is expected to vote on the issue at their next meeting on April 15.