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[Love the rock]

I have a question for people in apartments. Today I walked through an  apartment parking lot cutting through to save a few steps .The apartment is on the corner of cook and maplewood it was called maplewood green . They have been working on fixing it up . Where there used to be a few visitors parking stalls now there is pay visitors parking pay on your phone  I think a buck an hour. This is in a 100% residential  area no businesses around . Is this the new thing ?

[Victoria Watcher]

I don't know.  Visitor parking often gets abused.   Often by a partner of a resident, who is not technically a resident but stays there often.

 

Seems like a reasonable fix.

 

It looks to have about 100 to 110 parking stalls.  The building has 122 suites.

 

 

Better for the parking / tow company to deal with the cheaters than the apartment resident manager having to bug people, chase people, track certain cars, have people towed.  Especially if the residents have to pay monthly for parking (I'd guess they do), they do not like to see Janet's boyfriend parked night after night in the visitor parking area for free.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 May 2024 - 09:36 PM.

[Love the rock]

Yeah I was just wondering I’ve never seen it before unless it’s close to businesses.

[Victoria Watcher]

It looks as though other Starlight buildings have the same.   Managed by Devon or FirstService.

 

https://www.reddit.c...tment_building/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 May 2024 - 10:09 PM.

[aastra]

That parking lot would be a great candidate for maybe 6-8 stories of new construction, with the displaced parking put underground.

[Nparker]

It makes more sense to tear down the racist character homes in Fairfield than to build housing on existing parking lots.

[Victoria Watcher]

Pretty solid rock there.

 

 

(grey = rock)

 

Lots of blasting would be required.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 May 2024 - 10:26 PM.

[Nparker]

Then build 10 stories, the first 2 levels of which are above ground parking.

[Victoria Watcher]

I like that idea.

[Nparker]

We really should be building more above ground parking that is more or less hidden under high-rise and mid-rise projects, especially those that have commercial units at street level.

[Mike K.]

Yup. It makes no sense to blast work three or four storeys down, but that’s how we do it.

[sebberry]

 

In a bid to speed up new housing projects, address urban sprawl and tackle the environmental impact of housing, Saanich is considering a significant change to its parking requirements for new development.

 

Saanich council has directed staff to work on a bylaw amendment that will reduce the parking requirements for most residential building forms to one stall per unit.

 

Currently most housing forms require two spots per unit, while it is 1.5 stalls per unit for apartment buildings.

 

Garden suites and basement suites at single-family homes are required to have a designated space.

 

It’s just too much, said Coun. Teale Phelps Bondaroff, who co-wrote the policy framework with Coun. Zac de Vries.

 

“Our parking minimums are way too high,” he said, noting the new policy will address housing needs and environmental concerns.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...rojects-8467889

 

 

 

 

 

Bondaroff said he was inspired by a local resident who pointed out at a previous council meeting “we are in a climate and housing crisis not a parking crisis.”

 

 

 

 

Bondaroff must have a picture of Ben Isitt on his wall.

[Nparker]

Bondaroff must have a picture of Ben Isitt on his wall.

Or maybe Susan Kim.

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria councillors float idea of new parkade at north end of downtown

There’s a lot of pressure on the city to provide parking, but it still needs to keep the core area livable, says Coun. Dave Thompson

 

https://www.timescol...owntown-8777471

 

 

Parking downtown has become more of a challenge in recent years as the city has seen a boom in development, and several private parking lots were converted to mixed-use or residential development projects.

 

Jeff Bray, chief executive of the Downtown Victoria Business Association, estimates the city has lost about 2,200 parking spaces over the past eight years, the vast majority through development of private land.

 

The city estimates about 200 parking spaces have been removed due to the bike-lane network, though many have been relocated and the city still lists 1,950 on-street parking spots.

 

Bray said he loves the fact city council seems to be focused on downtown and improving things for visitors, residents and businesses, and he hopes having staff dig into parking could generate ideas to improve access to downtown.

 

 

 

 

The best place would be at or near the arena or RAP, of course.  Then it gets day (9-5 workers) and (mostly night and weekend) event parkers.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 May 2024 - 03:55 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Thompson said he has heard concerns about council approving residential development near downtown without adequate parking, but added: “At the same time, I look at the numbers and I see 40 per cent of downtown households are already car-free. Almost half of our downtown households are figuring out other ways to get around.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whoa, whoa, whoa.   Where does this figure come from?  If we take all the homless housing out of the picture, I'm sure that working people living downtown are not 40% car free.

[Mike K.]

Only in Victoria, could a loss of 2,200 public parking spaces not be viewed as a critical issue for the business community.

[dasmo]

Equity means bringing our standard of living down not those who have less, up….

[Victoria Watcher]

Here is another fib:

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Bray, chief executive of the Downtown Victoria Business Association, estimates the city has lost about 2,200 parking spaces over the past eight years, the vast majority through development of private land.

 

The city estimates about 200 parking spaces have been removed due to the bike-lane network, though many have been relocated and the city still lists 1,950 on-street parking spots.

 

 

 

 

 

Where are these relocated spots?

[dasmo]

They converted the parkades to street parking.

[dasmo]

Lying without lying.