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Committee approves $2M CKC parking plan

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Parking woes at the Community Knowledge Campus should be solved by the summer of 2014, but it will cost city taxpayers about $2 million.

The parking plan, which was presented to the City of Grande Prairie’s community safety committee Tuesday, recommends the city build about 260 new stalls on the site in two parking lots – one to the west of the new public high school and another directly to the south of the newest parking lot, which is south of the Eastlink Centre.

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Access to new park and ride no problem, city says

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The city will make sure vehicles can easily enter and leave its new park and ride facility, says St. Albert’s director of transit.

Bob McDonald said that when it started preparing its application for provincial grant funding from the GreenTRIP program, it conducted a traffic analysis that showed its plans for the Campbell Road facility will do the job.

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Town explores new parking restrictions

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Bylaw enforcement staff will begin investigating ways to extend the parking restrictions on recreation vehicles (RVs) to bulky industrial trailers and other offsite storage facilities after town council unanimously approved the directive last Monday.

Coun. Don Moore said the move is a necessary step to resolve the safety issues posed by hefty trailers indefinitely parking in tight residential areas. He says their massive frames haphazardly block sightlines for other drivers pulling out of their driveways.

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City council to move park-and-ride terminal to Chinook Winds

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Airdrie City council is moving the Co-op park-and-ride terminal to Chinook Winds Park as an interim solution for parking problems in the area starting in March. The solution will be in place until the summer of 2014.

The decision was made at a regular council meeting, Jan. 21, as a result of concerns expressed by the management of Airdrie’s Calgary Co-op, which has hosted an unofficial park-and-ride facility since Oct. 21, 2010.

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Downtown parking restrictions approved

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In spring merchants along Turner Valley’s Main Street will no longer be faced with commercial vehicles taking up customer parking or blocking their businesses from potential shoppers.

Turner Valley town council unanimously agreed Nov. 19 to accept Turner Valley Protective Services’ recommendation to limit commercial parking on Main Street due to residents’ concerns about being struck by a vehicle due to lack of visibility when pulling onto or crossing the street and merchants’ concerns about commercial vehicles taking up customer parking and reducing the visibility of their businesses.

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Council votes down parking restrictions

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City council unanimously defeated one of its own bylaw amendments aimed at curbing the practice of parking RVs and truck-and-trailer combinations in commercial parking lots while also outlawing the practice of parking vehicles with for-sale signs on private properties next to roads.

The proposed bylaw amendments would have limited the amount of time any vehicle could park on a residential road. Under the existing legislation, which now remains unchanged, a vehicle can park on a road for up to 72 hours, while RVs and trucks and trailers were limited to 24 hours.

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Calgary aldermen want to flush plans to turn aging Eamon’s Camp gas station into $1.4 million bathroom

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Two Calgary aldermen want to flush a city administration plan that suggests turning the historic Eamon’s Camp building into a LRT loo.

One of several options in a report coming before the city’s transportation committee Wednesday calls for converting the shuttered northwest gas station into an Park and Ride bathroom, which would cost nearly $1 million more than already allocated to the facility.

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Proposed rules for big box shopping malls face heat

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CALGARY— Developers and major retail chains are giving a rough reception to city proposals for new shopping centre design standards.

City planners have tested out proposed rules that would appear to make future Calgarybig-box complexes look vastly different from the normal suburban style, with less space for parking lots, more for pedestrians and more attractive streetscapes.

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Town looking for parking options downtown

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While hoping to avoid cutting into George Lane Park, High River Town Council voted to survey the downtown core in search of additional parking space to accommodate the growing tide of visitors to the Memorial Centre.

Coun. Al Brander shepherded the motion through Council at the September 24 meeting, carefully wording his proposal to evade the same level of opposition that greeted a previous survey suggesting the Town annex portions of a ditch in the popular downtown park to create more parking spots.

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