Parking in Waterloo Region

[plam]

So this is the latest, and probably most misleading in articles about parking minimums in uptown:

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-new...ng-1043546

The claim that this change in any way limits the parking in uptown is patently untrue, so far as I understand, no parking maximums have been proposed.

This only reduces the minimums for parking.

Frankly, I think council's positioning of this change is incorrect anyway.  They shouldn't talk about reducing parking, or anything like that, this should be a simple transition to market dictated parking amounts.  "Before, we forced developers to build a certain amount of parking. This makes no sense, as developers know better how much parking is needed.  Now, we let developers decide how much parking is needed."

This works reasonably well in uptown where parking isn't free everywhere all day...although it would be better if we priced curb space instead of timing it.

(Yes, I might currently be reading this book: https://www.amazon.ca/High-Cost-Free-Par...193236496X)

Is that news or editorial? Hard to tell... kind of more like a blog post.

I've read that book and am currently reading Parking in the City.