Pickering Council has approved recommended changes to the city’s Waterfront Permit Parking Program, including halving of the hourly rate.
In 2021, the city had introduced paid waterfront permit parking from May 1st to October 1st annually. Following the end of the program’s first season, staff completed a review and prepared a number of recommendations, with the community’s input, to improve the program for 2023. These recommendations were outlined in Report BYL 02-23 and included actions such as (but not limited to) the following:
- Reduce the hourly rate from $5 to $2.50 per hour, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm at all program locations.
- Provide two hours of free parking Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm within the waterfront permit parking area, except for Beachpoint Promenade, Front Street and the municipally-operated waterfront parking lots (in addition to the two hour free parking already allowed in the Liverpool Road lay-by spaces).
- Provide non-resident seniors, age 65 years and older to park at no cost at the waterfront (amendment made to the staff report at the executive committee meeting and then ratified at the council meeting).
- Provide residents the ability to obtain a no-charge daily permit for visitors parking on their street.