26 May 2025 Council meeting Transportation

Off-Street Parking Regulations Bylaw Amendments - Downtown Urban Centre

Motion
That 1.Off-Street Parking Regulations Amendment Bylaw 2025 No. 7266.04 (to eliminate minimum parking requirements in the Downtown Urban Centre) pass first reading; 2.Off-Street Parking Regulations Amendment Bylaw 2025 No. 7266.04 pass second reading; and 3.Council direct Staff to proceed to a public hearing for Bylaw 7266.04 prior to consideration of third reading and final adoption, as required by Section 2.3 of the Off-Street Parking Regulations Bylaw 2018 No. 7266.
Sources
Agenda itemCity agenda, whole meeting
Staff reportPage 1
Purpose
To present Council with amendments to the “ Off-Street Parking Regulations Bylaw 2018, No. 7266” to remove minimum parking requirements for all uses in the Downtown Urban Centre.
Staff report, page 1
Staff recommendation
That: 1. “Off-Street Parking Regulations Amendment Bylaw 2025 No. 7266.04” (To eliminate minimum parking requirements in the Downtown Urban Centre) pass first reading. 2. “Off-Street Parking Regulations Amendment Bylaw 2025 No. 7266.04” pass second reading. 3. Council direct Staff to proceed to a public hearing for Bylaw 7266.04 prior to consideration of third reading and final adoption, as required by Section 2.3 of the “Off- Street Parking Regulations Bylaw 2018 No. 7266”.
Staff report, page 1
DocumentsStaff report about Transportation & Mobility

Questions and answers

Councillor Janice Perrino
Speaker identificationConfident
Yes

asked
very much, Mr. Holme. Councilor Prince question your worship through you should this pass. The first emotion for the first reading and the second reading if those two were to pass it. Says that direct staff to proceed to a public hearing. So I'm wondering, when would the public hearing be and how do you not? Notify. Do you notify
City staff answered
everybody in the downtown corps? This is a great question through your worship. So because of the number of properties affected, it would just be a broader notification. Community wide. So. It's really. Broad community notification. And in fact, the public hearing is actually not a statutory requirement. The city and its parking bylaw. At the time it was adopted in 2018, included a requirement. To take any amendments to the parking bylaw for public hearing, so it's not a provincial statutory requirement. Something that the council could look at. Removing is a requirement. It's a requirement the council put on itself when it adopted the parking vial in 2018.
followed up
Okay, so how soon would it come? Back to the council. Would the public hearing? To that question. It would be June. It would be June. Okay. And when you say. The broader. What do you do, send out notices?
City staff answered
Social media, web advertising, newspaper. Similar to the general zoning bylaw amendment that it affects so many properties. That we'd
followed up
advertise that broadly across the community. I know that we'll. Be putting council gas rock will be putting these on the floor and I'll be voting. In favor of them. But I really do look forward to the public hearing and hearing from the public us to their views about this. This is an important change for us. So want to know? How they're feeling about it. Thank you. Thank.