By Angela Brown

Council approves downtown parking limits

Jul 18, 2018 | 5:00 PM

North Battleford area residents parking their vehicles downtown will need to remember that starting Monday parking is limited to two-hours, according to signage posted.

Council voted in favour of accepting the amended traffic bylaw related to city parking regulations and future parking strategy at its meeting Monday. The bylaw identifies locations for time-limit restricted parking, permit parking and paid parking.

People can park downtown for on-street parking on Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a maximum of two hours at no charge where indicated. People who violate the parking time-limit restrictions will be ticketed starting July 23.

Mayor Ryan Bater said in some cases people who require parking downtown during the day can pay for a stall on an annual basis if they contact the city to make arrangements. He said there was a large demand for these pay stalls, so a lottery was conducted through the city’s department of planning and development to determine who would have access to the stalls available.

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The public parking lot on the 1000 block of 101 Street is also limited to two hours, Mondays to Fridays from 7 a.m to. 5 p.m.  

“The department of planning and development has done a lot of work this summer with parking downtown,” Bater said. “Obviously because of the economic developments that are happening there, we’re seeing less commercial city lots that were once used as parking lots no longer available.

“So, a lot of individuals are using parking lots as a means to park their vehicles during the day – a lot of employees downtown,” he added. “This [plan] is meant to discourage that kind of activity, and to encourage the parking lot and on-street parking for customers and visitors downtown, to encourage more shopping downtown.”  

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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