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 A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 27, 1994 Fae. | WE te 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? 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