Parking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

It's not at all the same as fencing in the yard.  It's the same as bringing some chairs and hanging out for awhile.  You 'monpolize' that space for some amount of time.  When you stop using it, someone else can come and take it.

I'm completely with you when the city is giving out exclusive parking rights to specific parts of the road in front of a home owners house.  But I don't think that's what's happening.

No, you clearly have other storage for your chairs, and won't be using the park as permanent location to store them.  What you're suggesting is that I have family come visit, they park on the road for a little while during their visit, I don't oppose that.

What I'm opposing is you coming to city council and saying, Hey guys, I bought too many chairs to fit in my house, can I use part of the park to store them indefinitely, after all, that part of the park is already used by people to put their chairs when they come for lunch.

I'm not opposing visitor parking, I'm opposing residents storing their personal property, a car, on public property, the street, indefinitely, due to the lack of any other space to put their car.