Parking in Waterloo Region

[ookpik]

Kitchener downtown is a different issue.  The core has a 5 hour re-parking by-law. (The map for the area is actually posted on the parking signs).  No chalk there.  If your licence plate is entered, and it is found in the downtown core between 2-5 hours later, you'll also get an invitation to the courthouse!  

The Waterloo Town Square parking lot has a similar reparking rule.

IMO it's silly because people have many legitimate, business and personal, reasons to visit Uptown or Downtown more than once a day. These could be related, e.g. to drop something off and then pick it up later in the day, or not.

I appreciate the need to "discourage" people who work in the cores from moving their cars from spot to spot in order to park free for the day. But surely there has to be a better way to do that than pissing off occasional visitors who are using the free parking incentive to patronize businesses in the core.