merc feb 19 2013 The city hopes to craft a Parking Master Plan study in time for spring and is seeking public input. One of the motives behind the plan, said Allister McIlveen, Guelph’s manager of traffic and parking, is to ensure that parking capacity grows to meet future population growth, particularly in the city’s […]
Category: Parking that car
City initiates Parking Master Plan study for Downtown Guelph
Recognizing the need to develop improved plans for parking, the City of Guelph has initiated a Parking Master Plan study focusing on Downtown Guelph and surrounding areas. The City will review existing and future parking needs to develop a forward-looking and sustainable master parking plan for the next 10 to 20 years. The Plan will […]
Information on parking
As per Councillor Burcher’s request for infomation regarding parking, I am attaching the Downtown Parking Report that I referenced at council last night when I said: “A 2011 report from your own parking department showed an excess of revenue over expenditure in the operation of about $175,000. But wait, there is more: City employees occupy […]
Overnight Parking Restrictions
I am a resident of the City of Guelph, and I am concerned about the possibility of overnight parking becoming unrestricted in the city. I understand that council has agreed to consider doing an evaluation to consider this option. Overnight parking during the summer months is already an issue in my neighbourhood. There are a […]
Year round overnight on street parking.
Please be prudent regarding approving the above City wide parking to include winter months. Why ?……When snow falls and streets can’t be cleared efficiently, leaving piles of snow or frozen mounds where vehicles have been parked overnight or cleaned off before driving away, becomes both a pain to drive over or around and a safety […]
Resumption of the overnight parking restriction
Please note the overnight parking restriction (2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.) which is in effect annually from November 1 to April 30 on the majority of City streets, resumes tonight. To prepare the public for the return of this restriction and to advise of our exemption process, over the past week: • advertisements have been […]
Goodwin Drive overnight parking
I am a resident of the Goodwin Drive Condominium where overnight street parking has been permitted for the past two years. I am also the current president of the condominium board and have been for the past few years. I did request to present at the council meeting where street parking was to be discussed […]
City to open new temporary downtown parking lot
A new temporary parking lot on Wyndham Street in downtown Guelph will open on or about Monday, August 27. The lot is part of the Baker Street redevelopment site and will be in place until the redevelopment of the land begins. “We want to take advantage of the land prior to its redevelopment by creating […]
Intersection at Quebec and Wyndham
I read on Councillor Findlay’s blog (http://ward2guelph.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/wyndhamquebec-st-signal-changes/) that city staff have recommended that the traffic signals at the intersection of Wyndham and Quebec be restored to the same sort of timing and traffic rules that most other intersections in the city follow. I understand this to mean that the pedestrian scramble is to be removed […]
Transforming St. George's Square in downtown Guelph
With Guelph Transit’s move to Guelph Central Station on Sunday, St. George’s Square is set to become a new creative, community space. For the next three months, bus shelters in the Square will be transformed into pop-up art galleries showing the work of local artist Ella Dawn McGeough. The colourful artworks will playfully promote discussion […]