SooToday received the following letter from Selva Rasaiah. It's in response to one submitted last week by Andre Riopel.I have a few comments regarding your recent letter to the editor about downtown parking.
The Station Mall for example, is a parking lot that inflates their figure, and those parking spaces will not be used by people using businesses along Queen Street which many consider the downtown. During special events and Greyhound games, the Station Mall parking lot, and many others around the GFL Memorial Gardens provide sufficient parking beyond the capacity at the GFL Memorial Gardens.
The first recommendation to eliminate the minimum parking requirements based on building type and giving choice to landowners or developers is not within the interest of long-term city planning. This will only fragment parking even more and create isolated areas where there is a greater or lesser need for parking spaces. Either scenario would be out of control of the city to manage or resolve since those issues resulted from the decision of the property owner or developer.