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Originally Posted by Faust
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So ####ing tired of the belly-aching over this. Bunch of freeloaders griping about not getting to freeload anymore.
As I wrote before in this thread, there's a fundamental misunderstanding and exaggeration of what it is that people are getting from this. People are framing this as "I should be allowed to park in front of my home just like any other resident of the city, but now I'm expected to pay $150 a month for it?!?" The truth is:
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Originally Posted by timun
[...] you're not paying to park in front of your house, you're paying for the privilege of no one else being allowed to park in front of your house. And rightly so.
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And because I'm the kind of prick who will go to the lengths required to prove a mother####er wrong, let's get this whole thing put into context.
The map below is "Residential Parking Zone C", the
only zone where a "market permit"—that is to say, a permit for residents of ≥4-storey, ≥20-unit apartment buildings built after 1945—will cost $150/month.
Those areas I circled are the only stretches of road in the entire Zone C area that have permit-only parking,
representing only about 57 car-lengths' worth of street parking. The only directly adjacent properties are:
- 1523 - 10 St SW, a house
- 1104 - 16 Ave SW, a 12-unit, 2-storey apartment building built in 1912
- 1201-1211 9 St / 1-6 Fountain Walk SW, a 12-unit townhouse building built in 1994 (with a common parkade under it)
- 721 - 13 Ave SW, a 16-unit, 4-storey apartment built in 1911
- 725 - 13 Ave SW, a 20-unit, 4-storey apartment built in 1911
- 128 - 15 Ave SW, a 55-unit, 6-storey apartment built in 1979 (which has private surface parking at the back and a common parkade shared with 120 - 15 Ave SE)
- 120 - 15 Ave SW, a 34-unit, 6-storey apartment built in 1978 (which has private surface parking at the back and a common parkade shared with 128 - 15 Ave SE)
- 114 - 15 Ave SW, a 57-unit, 6-storey apartment built in 2000 (with its own parkade)
- 1411 Centre Street, a 29-unit, 3-storey apartment built in 1908
- 108 - 15 Ave SE, a 49-unit, 7-storey apartment built in 2002 (with its own parkade)
- 114 - 15 Ave SE, a house
- 121 - 15 Ave SE, a 3-unit, 2-storey commercial building built in 1980 (with its own surface parking, ~12 stalls)
- 124 - 15 Ave SE, a 133-unit, 16-storey apartment built in 1981 (with its own parkade and surface parking in back)
- 129 - 15 Ave SE, a 21-unit, 4-storey apartment built in 1912 (with ~12 stalls of surface parking)
- 131/133 - 15 Ave SE, a semi-detached house
- 135 - 15 Ave SE, a house
- 136 - 15 Ave SE, a 10-unit, 2-storey apartment built in 1915 (with three garages in back)
- 1411 - 1 Street SE, a 2-unit, 2-storey commercial building built in 1948
- 1501 - 1 Street SE, a house
These are the only people affected by the permit parking program, and by my count only about 90 of them wouldn't already have off-street parking. Of those, the only ones that would have to pay $150/month for the market permit are...
... LITERALLY NONE OF THEM. The big buildings built after 1945 all have surface and underground parking anyway. The rest are older buildings where they'd be charged only $75/year, or houses who'd only be charged $50/year.
The guy in Mission interviewed by CTV is full of kyit. They say he'll be paying $150/month. *bzzzzt*, WRONG! He lives in zone J, which would cost $100/month. And he lives in 333 - 22 Ave SW, a six-storey apartment building with
a big ####ing parkade under it.