2 - Friday, March 1, 1991 - North Srore News

Lonsdale lots do

PAY PARKING lots in !.ower Lonsdale remain 80 to 90
per cent vacant, while area residents fight for free on-street
parking, according to r:ports prescnted at a North Van-
couver City public hearing Monday night.

“We're being pushed out of
our own community,’” said Lower
Lonsdale resident Ann Barkley,
who added that the receiit opening
of the six-theatre Famous Players
complex at the corner of Chester-
field Avenue and Esplanade has
increased traffic and reduced
parking to almost vothing in her
neighborhood.

By Pamela Lang
Contributing Writer

“We were hoping for more to
be done,’’ she said.

When asked by Mayor Jack
Loucks if the new pay-parking
lots have reduced the problem,

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Barkley said that people want to
park for free, so they ignore the
lots and circle the streets looking
for a free spot.

There is no parking for people
visiting area residents, she said.

Barkley added that Waterfront
Park*s summer concert and activi-
ty schedule, which will likely make
the parking situation worse, has
yet to begin.

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Although pay lots cost $I for
the evening, the public still prefers
nei to park in them, said city
director of development services
Fred Smith.

“They are 80 to 90 per cent va-
cant,’’ be said.

Aldermen John Braithwaite and
Bill Bell suggested that restricted
parking, possibly for residents on-
ly, might be the solution.

Famous Players should be
displaying available parking with
posters in their building, said Ald.
Stella Jo Dean.

She added that the property’s

developers had presented council
with a map of the parking avail-
able to their customers.

Monday’s hearing was called to
change the zoning of a lot at
Esplanade and Rogers Avenue
that has been used for parking for
more than four years.

The lot is zoned M-1 Service
Industrial and has been used as a
150-vehicle parking lot under a
temporary permit. The city in-
tends to change the zoning to
CD-22 to allow parking as a per-
manent use.

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