Yesterday, I posted about proposed changes to on-street parking and parking in City-owned lots in Downtown Langley City to ensure parking availability to support businesses as part of Langley City’s Public Parking Strategy. This plan calls for introducing two-hour, four-hour, and expanded monthly long-term parking options in Downtown. Today, I wanted to touch on the proposal for on-street residential parking.
Currently, people can park their vehicles for up to 72 hours on all streets in Langley City that aren’t signed otherwise. The community has expressed concern about on-street parking in certain neighbourhoods. Research by the City shows that some streets have high demand for on-street parking, as indicated by the dark purple on the following map.
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| Typical on-street parking utilization on Saturday, the busiest night of the week for overnight parking. Select the map to enlarge. |
As all residents have on-site parking, some reasons people choose on-street parking are that on-site parking is priced (e.g., rental buildings or a university), used for reasons other than parking (e.g., storage), or not suitable for someone's vehicle (e.g., a commercial van). Of course, visitors also use on-street parking, and some people may have many vehicles.
To fairly manage residential parking in areas with high demand, such as the dark purple areas, the City would explore implementing a resident-permit parking program. A resident-permit parking program would encourage households to use available off-street parking, re-evaluate whether using off-street parking for alternative uses (e.g., storage) is optimal, and address chronic spillover parking from major destinations (e.g., a university). There are still many things to consider if the City were to implement a resident-permit parking program in select areas. Further work is required.
There will be a further opportunity to provide feedback on the City's proposed Public Parking Strategy. Follow “Let's Chat, Langley City!” to stay up to date.
There's no point to resident parking permits since the people who park in the purple area ARE residents. West of 200th is not an entertainment area where people should be pressured to park in paid parkades. This is not people coming from South of Colebrook parking there. It's residents of the area. The only thing a permit program would do is waste people's time and money.
ReplyDeleteIf someone choses to rent or purchase housing with insufficient parking, they can fight for street parking. There is no need for the city to intervene especially, especially if such efforts will be ineffective.
Please just make new builds provide ample underground parking. It would solve half the problems. These new builds are not being built with enough resident and visitor parking stalls.
ReplyDeleteWhile the idea of people using public transit is nice, the reality is that it is not feasible. Most residents in Langley do not work in Langley and require a car to get to work. Most folks would rather drive 40 minutes to Vancouver in their own car, than use public transit for a 1.5 hour commute. A 2 person household likely has 2 vehicles. This is normal and needs to be considered.
The sky train being built without additional parking is a HUGE failure. The new builds being built without ample parking is a HUGE failure. Come onnnnnn
This city is becoming an absolute mess.
The regional district found that the parking utilization rate for market rental buildings is 0.49 vehicles per unit near transit and 0.85 vehicles per unit away from transit. The parking utilization rate for strata buildings is 0.89 vehicles per unit near transit and 1.15 vehicles per unit away from transit. Langley City is subject to provincial requirements that do not allow us to set residential parking requirements within 800 metres of SkyTrain Station. Outside the 800 metre zones, we require between 1 and 2 parking spaces per unit. More info: https://sfb.nathanpachal.com/2019/03/metro-vancouver-study-finds-oversupply.html
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