General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

Parking space is at a premium? In sprawling edge of city developments?

Sorry, I was not specific enough. On-property parking space is often at a premium at car dealerships as they need to deal with sales customer parking, service parking, used car inventory and, most of all, new car inventory (which often arrives in large batches).

Generic public parking, no, I agree it's not at a premium.

It's a fair point...car dealers are about the only land use where parking actually is at a premium...because it's actually used for warehousing.

I really have no idea, but I'm willing to bet some money that car dealers base their parking on some kind of land use minimum parking requirements rather than...you know...like any business, figuring out it's actual warehousing needs.

Of course, any business which is using it's warehouse space to temporarily store clients vehicles, is likely going to just fill up their warehouse and not really leave enough room for clients, that's just how businesses prioritize things.

That being said, I think the point remains, surface parking is still cheaper and land is not really limited, I don't think they'd build a parking garage just for more parking, I think I buy the "we need indoor space for special cars" argument a bit more.