It’s hard to imagine an issue coming to Council that better reflects Joni Mitchell’s hit, “Big Yellow Taxi”. While Joni famously croons, “Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
There are 666+ surface parking spaces within a 5 minute (400m) walk of the Walser funeral home. We don’t need more surface parking. We need housing. Plus, I’d estimate the tax revenue from the 9 residential units is more valuable than a parking lot despite the same services being provided for the land. Just means all other city residents have to subsidize this parking lot!
This shouldn't even have been proposed. Walser needs to get their priorities right. Housing, especially lower rent housing, is far more important than more parking. And as it's already existing, it would be a huge unnecessary environmental cost and waste to demolish functioning housing to construct a new parking lot.
There are 666+ surface parking spaces within a 5 minute (400m) walk of the Walser funeral home. We don’t need more surface parking. We need housing. Plus, I’d estimate the tax revenue from the 9 residential units is more valuable than a parking lot despite the same services being provided for the land. Just means all other city residents have to subsidize this parking lot!
This shouldn't even have been proposed. Walser needs to get their priorities right. Housing, especially lower rent housing, is far more important than more parking. And as it's already existing, it would be a huge unnecessary environmental cost and waste to demolish functioning housing to construct a new parking lot.
Absolutely not! Inconceivable that council has gone this far ! Say no to Walser!