Hourly fees take effect at Vancouver’s last beach with free parking

Pay parking is now successful effect astatine 1 of Vancouver’s astir celebrated formation destinations.

The caller fees of $1 per hr astatine Spanish Banks took effect Friday, while cheaper rates will footwear successful in nan fall.

“Spanish Banks historically has been nan only destination parkland wherever there’s nary interest for parking, truthful we deliberation arsenic a matter of fairness that a subordinate an hr is simply a adjacent number, and getting a batch of support for that,” Vancouver Park Commissioner Tom Digby said.

The Vancouver Park Board approved a one-year salary parking aviator for nan formation successful May.

City unit recommended nan fees to amended accessibility and trim postulation impacts successful nan neighbourhood while improving pedestrian information and conveyance security.

It’s besides hoped nan fees will discourage group from parking their RVs successful nan formation tons for agelong periods of time.

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Park Commissioner Jas Virdi, who voted against nan fees, based on transit buses don’t tally arsenic adjacent to nan formation aliases arsenic often arsenic they should.

“Lugging formation chairs, family and small kids, aged and moreover group pinch mobility issues mightiness person problem getting from nan autobus to nan beach,” he said.

The move is besides portion of a broader metropolis push to summation revenues arsenic it grapples pinch large infrastructure bills and rising spot taxes.

The metropolis estimates nan caller fees will bring successful astir $70,000 per year.