Clarington Council is making some changes to parking in Bowmanville to help support local businesses as they reopen and support customer turnover. Council has voted to support courtesy parking in Bowmanville in December each year to support the Holiday shopping.
Here are some of the key changes that will take effect on January 1, 2022:
- Two-hour free parking is being discontinued to allow for customer turnover and increased parking availability.
- Parking rates will go up to $1 per hour.
- A $5 maximum daily parking rate is being imposed on the Division Street, Silver Street, Water Tower and Church Street parking lots.
- A two-hour maximum parking limit will be in place at the King Street lot.
Clarington Staff will also look at purchasing a mobile parking payment app and will report back to Council during the 2022 Budget deliberations.
Increasing the cost of parking is disheartening. I don’t see how that is going to benefit businesses, it will just make people like me avoid downtown Bowmanville stores.
A very stupid decision by council and nothing more than a cash grab. There is no way that making it more expensive for people to shop downtown will help businesses. It will just make people avoid shopping downtown and shop in the malls instead.
It’s called BOWMANVILLE not Clarington. They have some nerve changing the name of the town that are parents and Grandparents were proud of. I’ll NEVER refer to it as Clarington, nor will lots of other BOWMANVILLE born proud people.