'Parking is a service like many others the city provides and when looking at increasing user fees, does it not make sense to start with parking?' reader asks
SooToday received the following letter to the editor from reader Andre Riopel about the high cost that comes with free parking. We are a unique city in Ontario having the second highest lane/km per capita in the province and yet we continue to build more roads to try and solve traffic congestion.
But times are changing and the move towards densification is now at the forefront of the new Official Plan. Parking also occupies a large portion of our land mass which could be used for housing. It also produces significant storm sewer water which is also a cost not factored in. With a warming climate we expect to see more large rain events and the costs of flood damage is very high and very real.
Parking is a service like many others the city provides and when looking at increasing user fees, does it not make sense to start with parking? It would be very easy to encourage city staff to drive less by doing the following:
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