Parking in Waterloo Region

[tomh009]

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.

Still better than a pure parking structure (such as the existing one on Willis Way.

But as MidTowner said in another post, I don't think there is a capacity shortage at the moment.  Until there is more retail or more office space in uptown (ie more people during business hours), the current capacity looks to be OK, and the LRT should even help that, with some portion of shoppers/commuters taking the ION rather than driving. 

Admittedly the city council approved this as a longer-term initiative, not an immediate one.