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MEMORANDUM |
JAN 25 1882

TO: B. Kirk, January 19, 1982
City Administrator

FROM: F.E. Peters,
City Engineer

SUBJECT: Parking on Kitchener Avenue

RECOMMENDATION:

That parking be eliminated on the south side of
Kitchener Avenue from Westwood Street to thirty meters east
and that the existing and proposed parking restrictions be
properly enforced.

BACKGROUND AND COMMENTS:

Attached is a copy of a letter received from a
resident of the area around PoCo Place. It describes in some
detail the problems experienced by residents of the area. We
have also had several telephone complaints.

XY do not agree with the need to completely eliminate
parking from the street. The street is wide enough to handle
parking on both sides and still provide two lanes of traffic.
The street is also owned by the public and cannot be preserved
for private parking. However, I do recognize some of the
problems that are mentioned. We previously eliminated parking
on the north side near the intersection of Westwood but. find
that cars parked on the south side also interfere with traffic
both turning off Westwood onto Kitchener and also with the
visibility from Kitchener to Westwood. I would therefore
recommend that we eliminate the parking from the intersection
to thirty meters east. The remainder of the south side should
be retained for long term parking, both of employees of the
shopping center and of commuters who leave their cars and catch
the bus into Vancouver. If we do not provide some location
for these people to park, they will end up on other residential
streets which are less desirable to be used for parking.

If Council feels the need to make some of the north
side of Kitchener Avenue available for residents of the street
to use during the day, it could possibly be done by the creation
of a 2-hour parking zone from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to
Friday. This would ensure that the spaces could not be taken

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