KBCIA asks City of Kamloops to put the brakes on downtown parking rate increase
KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association (KCBIA) wants the City of Kamloops to postpone its scheduled 25-cent downtown parking rate hike set to go into effect January 1, 2018.
General Manager Gay Pooler says when the increase was put into a City bylaw in 2013, “there were expected timelines and outcomes that have not been realized yet.”
“Considering the lack of newly-created long term public parking, receiving timely and relevant information on our current downtown parking situation and the negative public perception regarding downtown, the KCBIA is requesting that City Council defer the slated January 1, 2018 increase for one year, until a study has been completed, or creation of long term parking.”
And although council recently voted down a $100,000 parking study, Pooler is confident a new, revised study will gather popular support in a “slightly expanded form” including not just parking, but transportation as well.