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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
You came so close! It helps the restaurants that depend on the suburban customers. Very few of Calgary's entertainment districts have enough density nearby to self-sustain.
It's a catch 22, we need to make the city more livable without owning multiple cars for many reasons, but you can't take away people's cars before this is made more possible.
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Maybe they should be the ones who take transit or and Uber or use a parkade then. Making residents bear those costs is stupid.
I actually doubt this is the reason for the change though since restaurants aren’t hurting because of a lack of parking.
With increased density due to new developments in the belt line, parking will be increasingly at a premium. This allows the more wealthy infill and century home owners to maintain a monopoly on parking and all the new condo residents to get ####ed. They do donate and vote more than the young people that tend to live in condos.
But I’m sure the city did it under the guise of thinking “green” and encouraging households to go to 1 car.