Downtown parking spot
shortage getting critical

THE CHAMBER OF commerce
has set up a committee to pursue
downtown parking possibilities
with the city.

‘We're worried about the fu-
ture,’’ said chamber president
Sharon Taylor last week of the
current shortage of downtown
parking spols.

“Tt has come up before and
seems to become more critical
every month,’’ she said.

Taylor said the chamber com-
mittee will be writing the city on
the matter.

She added that the chamber
wants to lay out different
scenarios and then work to find-
ing an option that could work.

One factor which has crimped
the number of parking spots is a
by-law relieving developers of
the requirement to put in off-
streel parking,

That by-law went into effect in
1986 and covers the ara from

emerson down Lakelse to
Apsley. It also covers Lazelle
. Ave, from Emerson to Atwood.

Developers were given a break
on parking in an attempt by the
city to promote business growth
in that area of town.

Earlier this year council gave
two readings to another by-law to
cancel the first one.

Two readings doesn’t make a
by-law official but it does give an
idea of the way council is think-
ing.

And when new building permits
are now requested in the parking
exclusion zone, theyll be sent to

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council for approval,

Council must either approve the
permit application or pass the by-
law, meaning that the permit will
then be subject to the city’s
normal parking requirements,

But while the chamber and city
deliberate on future parking, one
downtown employee doesn’t like
what is going on now.

Ken Belanger is a Canada Post
employee and says it’s becoming
harder and harder to find a park-
ing spot.

He’s particularly miffed by the
43 spots on Emerson belween
Park Ave. and the farmers’
market area leased by the city to
Nash Holdings, a division of
Skeena Broadcasters. ,

That’s half of all the spots
available on that stretch of road
but not all are being used, ‘says
Belanger. ;

**On the public side it’s always *)
full and. there are people parking..j..
‘down Park Ave. There's just no

place else to go. But on the other
side, barely half seem to be
used,’’ he said,

Those leased spots are for
Skeena Broadcasters employces
and they have vehicle stickers al-
lowing them to park there.

But Belanger said there are
Stickered vehicles parking in the
public spots.

“That means they don’t park
where they are supposed to so
where are other people supposed
to park? There are signs dn the
Skeena Broadcasters side saying.
it’s illegal to park there,”’ he said. |

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