Parking in Waterloo Region

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I think the parking garage on Charles was extremely well-executed. It looks attractive, and provided some new retail spaces. Waterloo would do well aiming for something like that Uptown.

Those are super awkward retail spaces, and it's a small portion of the frontage. I don't think something like it would be a good addition to uptown.

Have there been studies done of parking Uptown that identified a need for more parking? Do we know anything about what kinds of demand management (charging something) would alleviate that need?

The city of Waterloo wants to redevelop all of their surface lots, and so this is, as far as I understand, more about replacing existing parking spaces than expanding.