Chatham-Kent staff is recommending some changes to the parking bylaw for downtown Wallaceburg.
A report from Chris Thibert, manager of infrastructure services, is being brought forward at the Monday, March 26 council meeting.
“Engineering and Transportation Division (Engineering) has received a request from Council members, the Wallaceburg Business Improvement Area (BIA) members and downtown Wallaceburg residents to review the existing downtown parking program,” Thibert said in his report.
“Several concerns, issues and requests were being received which was the justification to proceed with an overall parking study for downtown Wallaceburg.”
Thibert said engineering met with the Wallaceburg BIA, members of Council and residents of downtown Wallaceburg on April 27, 2017 to discuss and consolidate all of the requests.
“Engineering committed to a parking study, which took place in June 2017, and return to the BIA in the fall of 2017 with the results and options on how to proceed.”
Thibert said the aim of the parking study was to provide the data needed to address the concerns by the BIA on the following issues:
– On-street and off-street parking time limits
– Residential parking options
– Permit fees
– Quantity and location of permit spaces
The findings from this study were presented to the Wallaceburg BIA in November, 2017, Thibert said.
Staff is bringing forward the following recommended changes to the Traffic and Parking By-Law #245-2004 on Monday:
– The current two hour parking time limit for Municipal Lot D be increased to three hours.
– In all applicable Municipal parking lots, the monthly permit parking cost be reduced from $20.00 per permit to $10.00 per permit with a discount being offered for annual purchases providing one month free (total discount of $10 following reduction).
– Reduce the number of permit parking spaces in Municipal Lot E by approximately half, totaling (12) permit spaces and (13) two hour time limited spaces.
– Implement a new Residential Parking Pass (RPP) Program, valid in Municipal parking lots only for residents living within the BIA limits for the Community of Wallaceburg at a cost of 50% of the general permit parking cost (which equates to $5.00 per month following the permit cost reduction) and as further defined herein.
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