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Originally Posted by curves2000
My quote about insane amount of money was the taxpayer funded arena for the Flames. I may be wrong but the city is trying to recoup a million in enforcement related costs in this parking situation. Personally there is enough of a surplus and enough in the existing pie to offset that, I am sure there is enough fine revenue generated to offset the expense as well but that's my opinion.
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I think this makes sense (maybe) in the denser areas where street space is at a premium but if maximizing value if the goal, why not just put this on all streets.
Go to Pineridge (or most neighborhoods), there's thousands of cars on the streets parked all the time. Why not charge them all $1000/year everywhere. Since the City is a business and extracting value is key.
Charge to park in city facilites/leisure centres.
Why does the parking need to be very difficult to come by to need to have a charge? Charge everywhere. Get a fleet of parkplus vehicles and we could eliminate property taxes with the revenue.