City council considers ways to redevelop surface parking lots in Edmonton’s core
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To help drive more vibrancy to Edmonton's core, council will be looking at ways to speed up development on surface parking lots in the city.
Traffic is picking up in Edmonton’s city centre once again, and it’s making it difficult to find good parking. Many drivers turn to paid surface parking lots.
Coun. Anne Stevenson said many of the lots are unsightly and illegal because they don’t have the permits to be parking lots.
“Some of them are paved and have permits in place, and others aren’t and they often have gravel and no permits in place to actually have parking allowed on that property,” Stevenson said.
Edmonton councillors are trying to find a solution.
The urban planning committee has directed city staff to come up with options to speed up the development of vacant parking lots and get rid of lots operating without a permit.
“Particularly in The Quarters, there’s a lot of gravel parking lots, so they don’t really create a welcoming and attractive atmosphere,” Stevenson said.
“Parking lots are not what we want to be seeing downtown. We want to see homes and businesses, so this is a way to make those properties come to life a bit more.”
Stevenson stressed finding solutions isn’t about taking parking away from the core.
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