A Langford Parkade
Posted by Steven Hurdle on September 8, 2008
Tonight’s Planning and Zoning Committee meeting was long and covered several newsworthy issues, but the one that is likely to affect the largest number of Langford residents is the promise of a downtown Langford parkade.
When it’s coming or where downtown it will be hasn’t been determined yet, but Lillian Szpak wants us to know it’s coming. “There will be a parkade in downtown Langford in time,” she said tonight in response to parking concerns from residents on streets like Brock and Fairway.
The most likely shape funding for such a project would take, given Langford Council’s previous decisions on things like sewers and highway interchanges, would be for the proposed parkade to be built using a mixture of public and private money and for the running of the facility to be contracted out to a private firm. So far, however, nothing has been publically announced about how such a project might be financed, just that such a project is planned.
– Steven Hurdle -
Steven Hurdle said
The part I find striking about this is the “crisis management” feel to this. The time to talk about parkades was the time in-between the high-density housing being planned and it being built, not after the fact with upset residents and businesses questioning whether people can park anywhere near their establishments at peak periods.
Heather Scott said
Transportation planning does not seem to be the strong suit of this town. How else can you explain there being four or five stop lights across (and immediately before and after) the Millstream overpass? Five stop lights in half a mile is pretty excessive, and I can’t think of anywhere else in Greater Victoria you can find that.
ian phillips said
As part of the planning for this future parkade i expect that Council will provide it’s taxpaying citizens with the complete “cost/ benefit analysis ” report before a decision is made to move forward with this proposed project.
A private proposal may not be answer in this case as i know that in the City of Victoria parking revenue exceeds costs and that this revenue is in the Millions of dollars each year.
I understand that the Local Government Act permits municipalities to charge developers DDC,s to construct parking facilities and i trust that our City has already adopted a bylaw to allow such charges to be assigned to all the recent and future applicable developments in our municipality.!!!!!!!!