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[Victoria Watcher]

Les Leyne: Crackdown on 'excessive' off-street parking requirements raises alarms

A new bill says if off-street parking requirements block new home construction, the province can put recommended minimum standards into regulations.

https://www.timescol...alarms-11533226

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 November 2025 - 09:23 AM.

[FogPub]

What everyone ignores here is that off-street parking isn't just for residents.  It's also used by visitors and tradespeople, who will now have to fight for on-street parking.

[Tony]

If people are using cars to get to work and their only available parking  is on the street when at home then there may be lots of parking for trade people  to park.

 

If people on the street decide that they do not need a personal car then that will leave space for trade people and visitors?

 

Do we build only considering past expectarions or do we build for now and the future expectaions and encourage and support those future expectations?

[Victoria Watcher]

If people are using cars to get to work and their only available parking  is on the street when at home then there may be lots of parking for trade people  to park.

 

If people on the street decide that they do not need a personal car then that will leave space for trade people and visitors?

 

Do we build only considering past expectarions or do we build for now and the future expectaions and encourage and support those future expectations?

 

I do not know.  Are all new houses required to have a driveway?

[FogPub]

If people are using cars to get to work and their only available parking  is on the street when at home then there may be lots of parking for trade people  to park.

 

If people on the street decide that they do not need a personal car then that will leave space for trade people and visitors?

 

Do we build only considering past expectarions or do we build for now and the future expectaions and encourage and support those future expectations?

Personal self-directed mechanized transport, where the user(s) are not exposed to the weather and that goes where you want when you want, is the standard and has been for many years.  That means cars.  It's the expectation, and shouldn't be a privilege for just the wealthy few.  Fact of life.  Deal with it.

 

That most cars (including light trucks and SUVs) are far bigger than most people need for most things is an issue, yes.  Many of those larger vehicles (excluding trades vehicles, of course) could be replaced with small 4 or 5 passenger sedans (or in many cases just 2-seaters or 1-seaters) and the vast majority of people wouldn't need anything more the vast majority of the time.