Kitchener council is considering whether it should change a bylaw that currently bans road hockey on city streets.

Coun. Kelly Galloway-Sealock introduced a motion at Monday night's council meeting to ask staff to take a look at the repercussions of overturning the bylaw.

She said road hockey is great and not just for the physical aspect.

"I think it brings neighbours together to because then the parents are out there talking and the kids get to know their neighbours, not just the kids in their class, so I think it really just brings that sense of community out," she told CBC News.

The bylaw isn't currently enforced and no one has ever been ticketed for playing road hockey on city streets.

"We don't enforce the bylaw, so it was about making our paper equal our practices," Galloway-Sealock said of why she wanted to see the bylaw changed.

'Encourage our kids to play'

Road hockey seems like the quintessential Canadian outdoor activity. Yelling, "Car!" and moving a net is about as Canadian as Timbits and Degrassi Junior High to many.

But Kitchener is like many municipalities that have banned road hockey, basketball and other similar sports from being played on streets for safety reasons.

In the summer, Ontario Children and Youth Services Minister Michael Coteau wrote to municipalities urging them to end their ban of road hockey.

Under no circumstances will kids be denied the right to play road hockey in the city of Kitchener. - Mayor Berry Vrbanovic

"We should encourage our kids to play," Coteau wrote, but added sometimes governments "focus too much on the details of programs, policies, budgets and statistics when the best thing we can do is just get out of the way."

This past July, Toronto decided to change its ways and council voted to overturn the ban after families were threatened with $90 fines in Dec. 2015.

Some councillors expressed surprise Kitchener had a bylaw banning street sports during Monday's meeting.

While the bylaw is reviewed by staff, Mayor Berry Vrbanovic stressed nothing will change.

"Under no circumstances will kids be denied the right to play road hockey in the city of Kitchener this winter. Or soccer. Or basketball. Lacrosse or whatever, hacky sac, whatever other sport kids are playing these days," Vrbanovic said during Monday's council meeting.