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Flames0910 · 06-02-2023, 01:23 PM

I also live next to a popular shopping district but if the problem is "too many cars being stored on inner city streets instead of in garages" the fix of charging market rate for parking permits should be sufficient.

IMO making residents pay for visitor passes (currently free but limited to two per household) is an overreach. The problem is my neighbours' cars that are being stored on the street 10-24hrs per day, not two vehicles coming to my place for dinner (4 hrs) once a month, or the electrician that comes for 2hrs and uses my permit to park his truck. Essentially as an inner city resident I now have to pay to subsidize guests and contractors who live in the suburbs -- this is the city's design problem, not mine.

06-02-2023, 01:23 PM	#1303
Flames0910 First Line Centre Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Calgary Exp:	I also live next to a popular shopping district but if the problem is "too many cars being stored on inner city streets instead of in garages" the fix of charging market rate for parking permits should be sufficient. IMO making residents pay for visitor passes (currently free but limited to two per household) is an overreach. The problem is my neighbours' cars that are being stored on the street 10-24hrs per day, not two vehicles coming to my place for dinner (4 hrs) once a month, or the electrician that comes for 2hrs and uses my permit to park his truck. Essentially as an inner city resident I now have to pay to subsidize guests and contractors who live in the suburbs -- this is the city's design problem, not mine. Last edited by Flames0910; 06-02-2023 at 01:27 PM.