http://www.westerlynews.ca/news/no-break-for-locals-on-parking-limits-in-tofino/
For some reason council thinks it is great for non-residents to get parking passes but in many cases locals can't park in front of their own homes.A hippie growing weed up the inlet can park as long as he/she wants with an offshore pass but a local can't use the same parking spot.When I go to Vancouver, I don't get free parking because I don't live there.
Greg Blanchettes says “I definitely think that the ultimate goal here, and sooner rather than
later, should be, ‘Your car gets parked on your property when it’s not
in use.’' Why does this not apply if you don't live here ?
Almost all cities in BC with parking issues provide passes for local parking.Tofino has it completely backwards and provides passes only if you don't live here !!!
This is just another part of Council's war on locals.Next election vote for candidates that will defend local rights instead of turning the town into one big amusement park.
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This makes a strong case for places like Rosie Bay.Tofino needs more gated communities with private policing of parking.
The elephant in the room, that nobody seems to want to talk about is thatvast majority of those free passes are for off shore folks living on reserves. Nobody wants to get into the political dog fight( past threats of boycotts and protests protests and retaliation) of asking offshore folk to pay for their parking in town...The socalled "hippie" growing weed up the inlet would be wacked in an instant except they have been lumped in with the natives. We have to get past this political correctness that avoids talking and dealing with obvious issues. It would not be rascist to suggest that natives need to develope and pay for their own off street parking or play by the same rules as others for on street parking, as the taxpayer can no longer afford it, and changes are necessary.
In many other ways the parking scheme is a nightmare, and the problems are to numerous to explore here. The lack of equity and fairness is abundant in all quarters. So too, the visuals are sad, a phalanx of parking signs assault the eye at ever turn....
filling in the area behind the 1st street dock is the best solution for providing offshore parking. it is insane to put offshore parking on the streets. INSANE that the elderly or infirm MUST trudge up 1st street hill to reach their vehicles. the council listens to STUPID consultants who really don't have any knowledge of how things work for the people who have lived here all of their lives.
decisions are based upon IGNORING our lives in favour of a bizarre idea that foreign(i. e. people who do not live here) academics have the right and the knowledge to do whats best for us.....because they believe they are smart and we are STUPID.
i would like to get in their faces in a place outside their STUPID open houses to tell them what i think in appropriate terms with inappropriate gestures.........
There used to be offshore parking along Grice Rd but it was turned into a kayak launch pad and green space for tourists and drunks.
Council still sells or leases non existent parking spots to commercial ventures.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/whistler-village-fire-damages-vacation-homes-1.4072204
this is a battle between common sense and academic theory.
the academic theory is that we will all be forced to accept expensive cookie cutter absurdities so tofino will be just like parksville. ooooh boy aluminum checker-plate back rests on benches!...remnant of the fishing days gone by! isn't that inane?
i hope residents will exercise their rights of civil dis obedience wherever they can with this street nonsense.
this isn't funded by the taxpayer but by tourism tofino in concert with tofino council who has tossed OCP guidelines and design standards into the trash.
likewise regarding container town. really a lot of civic pride in those c-cans
The above reference ,I believe, is to the container mall at the west end of Campbell St. It used to be private parking for residents of Hot Springs Cove but since there is free parking on the street it was no longer needed.
It would seem that a parkade located close to the Whisky Dock would be a better use of RMI money than the current "revitalzation" projects.At least it would serve a purpose and offset some of the parking that has been lost to those stupid planters in the middle of the road.
Greg Blanchette says: "If you’re lucky enough to own property in Tofino, your stuff should be stored on your property and not on public property”
If this parking issue concerned any of greg's "Social Justice Warrior Buddies", it would be No Problem to hand them out a free parking pass.
Better make sure that the "Tiny Houses" have enough parking spots! You can't expect everybody to drive a clowns bike.
Why wouldn't the Feds help first nations develop a multi floor parkade inside first street dock on filled foreshore. That's the tax money that is needed. Better get Gordo off his bike, and give up flying his various utopian balloons. He could solve basic problems here, if he chose to invest in reality. Sounds like a sure thing Liberal infrastructure project.
Unfortuanately under Blanchette's regime, owning property in Tofino is reduced to a matter of "luck." So much for a community of people who earn their rewards and are able to invest in their town, which many would do if council hadn't strangled he supply. It's not a matter of luck as much as matter of a lot more money than working people can afford. That is not "luck". That is bad management by town councils. Perhaps Blanchette prefers a town of privileged seasonal owners. Always someone needing a house sitter......
--Al Anderson said "hardship would need to be proven. Otherwise people will just come and get one because they want to park on the street, not because they have to,” he said “I don’t know if we have to develop a whole bunch of criteria for that.”--
These PC wackos should develop a whole bunch of criteria for "Offshore Visitors" and let them prove "hardship". Handing out hundreds of free parking permits to non-residents without any criteria is only good for Virtue Signaling and is so backwards!
Only elderly and disabled offshore visitors should be allowed to park in our commercial downtown, the rest should park at the school or community hall.
"Virtue signaling" love that phrase. In combination with piss on the people who live here and pay taxes. Wonder if Mr Anderson has distant relations in France. Reminds me of "let them eat cake" Pompous ass!
Supposedly Main Street is being beautified. IMHO they are making it totally undrivable. You ought to measure the width of the road in front of Tuff Cit Sushi. Guaranteed accidents will happen there.
The next election let's get a council that will rip the damn planters out.
How many parking spot was Dylan Green supposed to have with his new pizza joint on Cypre? I thought it was 8, but it looks like only 4
In many villages and municipalities in other parts of this province, people who own property and pay taxes on that property are given the privilege of on-street parking in front of their property. Signs are posted notifying others that local residents actually get preference. Tofino, on the other hand, has been making businesses pay for parking spots that do not exist, giving offshore residents and tourists preferential treatment and in some cases, ticketing locals who park on street close to their homes. Is it not time to make a concerted effort to divert the hordes of tourists to park up at the community hall and/or possibly develop parking up industrial road? And while I agree with parking being necessary for offshore elders and those with handicaps lets not turn our village core into a parking lot.
11:96 Ah!, that is all "traffic calming," one of their buzz phrases. So a few pedestrians get picked off. So it infuriates drivers. So it eliminates parking. It meets the latest understanding of smart, stylish, design. None of it meets the requirements of the bylaws for road design. Apparently, that is a standard for others to meet.
South Chestermans and Shore were very busy this weekend.The war on tourism has failed like a North Korean missile.
A brutal combination of Whistlerization and Qualicumization is meeting head on with the ever expanding offshore population.
8:45 Tofino responds with "strategic patience"
Has council opted to battle for hearts and minds, rather than whip out its proverbial CF-18's. Does council even dare to utter the words "Radical Islandic Tourism"
Just build a new muni-office/library/firehall over the muni parking lot with 3 underground parking levels and 2 on the roof, done 500 parking space solve.
Can the superheroes bylaw/protection manager of whatever please stop turning the elementary school into a campground, boat trailer dump.
The 2ft wide paved path on way to the school by the house with 4 camper in the yard,
is now Mirror to mirror of vehicle parked in towards pedestrians encroaching, without a proper curbed sidewalk. Ppl can barely go by.
Than they have to always make sure the constant traffic of SUV parent backing off the grassy field doesn't mow them down on the crosswalk. Unreal.
not safe for anybody, if an accident happen I sure hope the district of Tofino or SD71 is liable for creating unsafe urban designs out of a crackerjack box just to accommodate more and morrrrrre tourist.
8:36 Dylan has agreed that his restaurant guests shall only arrive on foot and by bicycle. Those 4 parking spaces will be taken by staff.
Isn't that the way things work in this town?
What I have got to see is how the delivery trucks will supply that restaurant. Some locations should never have been allowed to be developed. That is one of them.
There's a teeny tiNY loading Bay between the new building and his house. I have no idea how any delivery truck will be able to use it. Cant wait until Cypre is a parking lot for Wolf in the Fog staff and customers and now the pizza joint.
Does the Ahousaht band not still own the lot between Himwitsa and the CBT office? Why can that not be developed for offshore parking?
That belongs to the Hesquiat First Nation. It is zoned as residential but could potentially be rezoned.
Transparency ?
God knows what other outrageous comments these "community representatives" made at the March 28th council meeting, the video on the district website has been conveniently scrambled!
I love how lots are rezoned to commercial and then...usage is changed and concessions are made at another level to accommodate the new business plan when no one is paying attention in say the dead of winter. A con job on the town and all for greed of new to town business' you know the progressives. Where is the long term planning? OCP? Leadership is not a sound bite Ms Mayor. Time to do something.
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