Starting February 1, time-limited parking will be implemented on streets within Lynn Creek Town Centre from 8 am to 6 pm. This will help keep short-term parking spaces available for everyone, says the District of North Vancouver.
“We’re making these changes in response to increasing demand for short-term on-street parking and continued redevelopment of Lynn Creek Town Centre under the approved community plans,” DNV said in a notice. Time-limited parking, such as a two-hour parking restriction, frees on-street parking by encouraging higher turnover and reducing pressure on on-street parking, DNV added.
However, residents of existing single-family or duplex homes on blocks affected by the changes will be eligible to purchase on-street residential parking permits.
Residential on-street parking permit
Those who live on a street marked Resident Parking Only or Resident Exempt can apply for a permit to park on the street. Parking decals are valid for one calendar year (January 1 to December 31) and can be purchased starting in December of the preceding year.
Two parking zones
A Resident Parking Only (RPO) zone is an on-street area where parking is restricted to those residents whose vehicles are registered to an address within the zone. Residents who qualify can park in the zone for up to 72 hours with a permit. Non-residents are not permitted to park within the RPO zone at any time.
A resident-exempt (RE) zone is an area where residents whose vehicles are registered to an address within that zone are exempt from the existing on-street parking restrictions for up to 72 hours. Non-residents can park within the RE zone if they observe the time restrictions.
For specific questions about the regulatory changes, contact the service desk at eng@dnv.org or 604-990-2450.
with increased density, live is getting more complicated and requires government control and regulation. The high density shoe-box-living, glorified by the Marxist left, is a disaster. Without regards to infrastructure, health care, education and environment, politicians try to pressure increased pressure on densification
Parking issues are a direct result of densification without enough on-site parking. This all suits the social engineers who are hard at work in self convinced fashion that they truly have the answer. That modest income and blue collar renters either don’t – or should not want automobiles.
Developers are then given a green light to build their chicken-coup little boxes without sufficient parking, all to the delight of enlightened socialists.
I believe this to be morally wrong, taking advantage of people’s economic situation as a means to design your own housing world order.
For myself, I prefer more of a live and let live approach which keeps all options open. Those who live in densified neighbourhoods, typically with transit nearby should also have reasonable access to personal-use vehicle parking (that’s enough on-site parking), thus allowing the individual to choose.
Neighbourhoods (and housing), designed – to be without – I believe, are much more likely to be your future ghetto’s.