04-17-2026, 01:55 PM
(04-15-2026, 02:30 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote:(04-15-2026, 01:20 PM)the_conestoga_guy Wrote: This looks like a really nice addition to downtown.
General question, not specific to this project: is there any sort of rule in place that requires developers to "reserve" a parking space for a service like Communauto if they're forgoing any other parking? I'm happy to see buildings like this exclude parking to keep the housing costs down, but I think it would still be nice to have space for a carshare.
The only way the cities could require that is if they made it a requirement of the zoning bylaw where they basically state one parking space shall be reserved for carshare for every X units.
However where this gets complicated is within MTSAs, the province made the minimum parking requirement within MTSAs zero spaces (Kitchener already had this stipulation), as such requiring a singular car share spot as a requirement would go against the province and that is bound to cause problems.
One could definitely get around that by writing something in terms of parking spaces, for example, for every X parking spaces one must include a car share space. However that could easily be circumvented by a developer by having less than X spaces provided since they legally require zero. The other glaring problem I could see developing is with access to such a spot especially when it's in a private parking structure, so I could see developers trying to get out of it and really fighting it.
Communauto has a three-vehicle station at Cameron and King, literally metres away. They could probably put another three in at that location, and between that and the Kitchener Market Ion stop (to say nothing of being less than a ten-minute walk from nearly everything an urban resident could want or need), parking is almost a moot point