Parking in Waterloo Region

[tomh009]

They sent mail to (all, I presume) residents of the area informing people of the April 25th meeting and offering the option to attend as a delegation.

Does "Arrow Lofts" have an official/collective view on Benton St parking?  I should think that would pretty much settle things for the city, at least wrt Benton.   The only "problem" I've ever seen is with Downtown workers who occasionally try to park there all day.  The City, however, always seemed pretty vigilant about ticketting.

I don't think there is any "official" view.   But many people in the building have been quite concerned about the parking enforcement.

It is somewhat similar to the situation in the suburbs where people want to keep parking available in the front of their houses.  But on the other hand, it's close to 150 units in the building (and soon probably about 300 total, with the second building) and maybe about 100m of parking space, for maximum of 20 cars. 

The reality is that with intensification we have many more people living in the same amount street frontage, and there is frequently little dedicated visitor parking available within any given building.  In the case of Benton St there isn't really much justification for enforcing the parking ban as the traffic volumes clearly do not require two lanes in each direction.  Now, if the street were redeveloped in the future in a different configuration, the discussion might be very different.