Parking in Waterloo Region

[Coke6pk]

I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to figure out who was parking downtown every day and start issuing those people tickets rather just the occasional visitor that happens to park all over downtown visiting a bunch of different businesses. License-plate reading technology is scary-good these days and could conceivably be deployed to capture all this revenue from the worst offenders that are habitually parking for free instead of paying to store their.

Coke6pk mentioned above that licence plate data is only stored for one day due to privacy concerns. I don't see any issue with retaining it for up to 30 days for the purpose you suggest. That would catch the "frequent flyers, er parkers."

And they tag the guy who stops for 5 min every morning to grab a coffee and breakfast, as he parks there 5 times a week?  See above post, no perfect answer!