Editor:
Re: secondary suite regulations and parking
I will be unable to attend the public hearing next week as I will be out of town and so I just want to make a few comments regarding the following:
“No suite parking would be required if it (the suite) was within one kilometre of the town centre or 450 metres from a transit stop.”
There seems to be some kind of huge assumption here that folks renting these particular suites will not have cars. I have to say that in this day and age that seems very unlikely, and so instead of parking on site these people will have to take up parking spaces near the town centre where parking is already an issue.
I would say that it is quite likely that if, for example, two people are sharing a suite, they might both have cars. And if you have a look at the parking situation in neighbourhoods that are near the town centre, you will see that on street parking is already pretty well used.
So I would suggest that council look a bit more closely at the logic being used here before reducing any on-site parking requirements. If anything, it seems to me that the closer to the town centre a suite is located, the more important it is to have on-site parking.
Kim Manning,
Canmore
