Monday 6 March 2017

Park(ed)!




PSST!

Looking for free parking: now that meters are to be $1.25, and seniors' passes are upped as well?
You've got 78 options.
Downtown!



1.
Always check Hall first - between Herridge and Vernon: 
2 hrs, 41 spaces. No meters - as in free parking! - while just around the corner on Baker you pay whatever meter-rates. 
Go figure!





2.
Co-op parking: 2 hrs, 37 spaces - ostensibly for shopping members. Shopping really won't take anyone more than 30 minutes, leaving another 90 for downtown chores plus coffee. Or you forget about the shopping and just park.
Seeing that the previous Council approved a Co-op parking-variance, allowing them to ridiculously actually cut required parking by half: they owe us!

It could be that the City is now adding to/compensating for this doozy it created by giving free parking to the Co-op along the stretch of Hall behind it. With said 41 spaces and from them most convenient access to the Co-op through the lane at DeVito's. 
Either would be weird, but then - the City/Co-op relationship has always been tight, even more so with Nelson Commons.    



Maybe (maybe!) there's something to City Hall now needing more funds for road-repair - potholes in roads and cracks in sidewalks ever deepening/widening for some time! - but conditions would be less drastic with continual (less pricey!) proper! maintenance over time, than an often again-and-again-same-hole band-aid approach by Public Works under Colin Innes - if any approach at all!

I remember a Star reader quite some time ago knowledgeably and in detail explaining how to fill potholes properly for good. Instead of!

Attempting to make funding happen through pass/meter rate-increases would only be reasonable if City Hall had already exhausted all other possibilities: with - for instance - 41 additional parking-meters on Hall (and where else?) 11 months ago!


Who is in charge of this down the rabbit-hole?
I mean.... seriously?





Also see post
Seniors' Parking Pass Increase
21 Feb, 2017
2nd below


Credits:
Avalisa
Martine Bedin



Colin McClure, Chief Financial Officer
cmcclure@nelson.ca

City Council
nelsoncouncil@nelson.ca

Pam Mierau, Manager - Development Services
pmierau@nelson.ca

Colin Innes, Director - Public Works
cinnes@nelson.ca

1 comment:

  1. I spoke with Councilor Dailly on the street asking him if the thought seniors overstayed their parking time. He said of course. Then I said well they could chalk tires, he said they weren't doing that.
    I asked why didn't you just eliminate the pass, that is what your are doing anyways. He kind of nodded yes. My take away is seniors are part of the cause of difficulty parking in the city. Not in my case, I have never changed my habits of why or how long I come down town since I have been eligible for a parking pass the first year they raised it to $30, and my birthday was November, when I paid the $30 and they all expire end of Mar. What would happen now with a seniors birthday ocurring in November or any other time up until the end of feb? Obviously no seniors will be paying $90 for a couple months. Just saying....this was about eliminating seniors parking passes, hardly enough to make a dent in their annual paving budget as has been said. Just one more reason why this city is becoming unaffordable.

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