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Originally Posted by Fuzz
That must be a Vancouver thing, because I have never heard of that before(and I don't really believe it is a thing). Every one in Calgary is a large shared parking zone, usually covering a few streets for which residents have permits to share those spaces.
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The idea could potentially work for that too. If the city knows that a street/area has capacity for forty cars, and 50 residents have permits, but 15 of those permit holders indicated they weren't going to use a space at that time, the city could rent out space to 5 more cars during that window. Then a share of the proceeds could be divided among the 15 permit holders who notified of giving up their spots.
Parking enforcement that I see in paid parking areas is generally managed by cars with cameras on top that drive around scanning license plate numbers, so it wouldn't matter where people parked in an area as long as their license plate matched the time they paid for according to the availability indicated by the system.
It could even combine with other city programs like trying to prioritize parking for EVs, as the app could reserve a certain percentage of parking spaces only for vehicles that are EVs or whatever.