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Monday, June 27, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Another kick at parking plan Permit-only parking around the Halifax Common on residential streets would be Monday-Friday during daytime hours Several pay-and-display spaces may be limited to two hours to accommodate parking demand for the skating oval JENNIFER TAPLIN
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A rehashed proposal for parking around the Halifax Common is making another run at Halifax regional council tomorrow. Council defeated a “permitonly” plan in January. But the transportation committee is now proposing pay-and-display parking directly around the Common and permit parking for nearby residential streets. “The purpose of this policy is to control the availability of parking on certain blocks to ‘outsiders’ while retaining sufficient space for the residents who live along them,” the staff report states. Residents would get first crack at purchasing $30 passes and the
The proposal involves using 90 parking spots around the Common: 30 will be new spaces. 30 are currently two-hour spaces. 30 are currently unlimited spaces.
rest would be open to the public. “The whole community wants it,” said downtown Coun. Dawn Sloane, adding parking-related irritation is something residents who live near the Common deal with frequently. Staff predict pay-and-display parking would bring in $135,000 a year from charges of $1.50 an hour and a daily maximum of $7.50. It would cost $70,000 to install six ticket machines that
would cost $1,000 a month to operate. Revenues would be funnelled into sustainable transportation projects. “I think that’s the only way we’re going to be able to fund the amount of transit people are demanding,” Sloane said. While residents are thrilled, there are several organizations that aren’t: The Quinpool Road Merchants Association is worried this will take away from its parking supply, and many people who work at the QEII Health Sciences Centre don’t want to lose free onstreet parking. “Unfortunately, if you don’t live in a neighbourhood where you work, then you have to pay for parking,” Sloane said. “If you go to any other city, then you have to pay for parking.”