Parking in Waterloo Region

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So here is why Kitchener has a 5hr reparking limit...

I appreciate that there was abuse by people who work downtown, i.e. the employees of businesses who complain that they're losing business to the suburbs due to free parking. ISTM those employers have a problem with those employees. Why is the city aiding and abetting them in disciplining their employess? After all the businesss themselves have more powerful tools to deal with this issue--without antagonizing their own customers in the process.

The problem is not just the employees of the retail stores that are taking the on street parking. Employees of the downtown businesses, such as Manulife, Sun Life, governments, Google, Desire to Learn, etc are taking these parking spaces. Those companies have no incentive to discipline their employees for doing it, because they're not retail businesses with customer parking.