Parking

Town  Council

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With amalgamation, the problem of solving three different sets of By-laws in various areas, seems to have been ongoing.

At Monday night's Council meeting, the issue of parking was brought forward in a draft report to effect a change to the current parking By-law and initiate one law that would encompass the amalgamated Saugeen Shores rather than one for each of the three previous individual municipalities - Port Elgin, Southampton and Saugeen Township.

Several points were brought forward including possible overnight stopping in public parking lots. Councillor Dianne Huber wanted to see the ban put into the By-law however, Deputy Mayor Doug Freiburger, raised some concerns. "Truckers should have access to overnight stopping," he said. "They have to have somewhere to rest and I would rather they pull off into one of our parking lots to do that."

 

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The issue over parking time-lengths also came under discussion. In front of the Southampton Art Gallery, there is a proposed 15 minute parking allotment and 120 minutes (2 hours) elsewhere. There would also be a parking restrictions enforced in front of G. C. Huston Public School, St. Andrew's Pesbyterian Church on Albert Street, the Southampton liquor store,the median strip on Ottawa Street and others, including several restricted parking areas during Pumpkinfest, in front of Saugeen Central School in Port Elgin, and many, many more, ranging from laneways to main street.

Vice-Deputy Mayor, Doug Gowanlock expressed his concern that a lot of the parking in the downtown cores was being taken up by people who work in the various retail stores. In Port Elgin, there are no time limits posted on the maint street of Goderich while, in Southampton, there is a posted two-hour limit on the main street of High Street.

The report will be re-drafted and returned to council for deliberation at the next meeting on June 22nd.