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Originally Posted by king10
Waiting lists for parking downtown exceed over 6 months for municipal lots(Convention Centre, City Hall and York Parkade included) and over 90 days for private lots. There is a lack of parking even before this student residence comes online. So the parking included as part of this development is required.
Not to mention that this development is eliminating the existing on site City Parking which the City leased from BAYKING motors going way back. Also eliminated is the surface lot recently sold on Hunter and Catharine. More surface lots downtown are to be sold in the future, so parking garages will have to be built. In my opinion it is a smarter use of land to build parking garages which can house the same amount of cars as say 5 surface lots. Time to get rid of the massive surface parking lot blocks we have, this site included.
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People must not be using their spots then, because I live downtown and not only would I never pay for parking, but if I did there is always room at nearly every parking lot. John and Rebecca is a parking lot desert and other areas have soooo much parking available.