“I see no need for it” said a local man named Tom Ogonoski.
“The only people riding bikes around here are the ones stealing your stuff in the middle of the night” he added.
“We want the Alberta government to interfere and protect us” said resident Kimberlee Dawn.
You’ll just be adding to the cost of things like basement suite rentals, exacerbating urban densification efforts, because those rentals wouldn’t include a parking space, typically.
All the more reason to flesh out the cycling and public transportation network.
The point is, taxpayers should not be paying for these residents to have on-street (public) parking, while they leave their (private) garages and driveways empty.
For residents that absolutely “must have” parking at the back and front of their property, by-law provisions should allow them to be able to create a second driveway on their front lawn.
Just the sight of those streets with cars lining both sides of the curb just screams entitlement.
Your comment is a great example of a car-centric mindset, in that everyone has or wants to have a vehicle which is not true at all.
If bylaws require supplying parking lots for each suite/tenant, then that extra cost of buying the land (and more often removing land because the lots have to go underground) is tacked on to the total rent.
So you’re comment is factually untrue and honestly makes no sense.