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Pay-and-display meters Bronte ducks pilot meters By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The parking meters on Lakeshore Road East, from Navy Street to Allan Street, may be gone, but something has been left in their place. Area residents are advised that beginning this month multi-space Pay-and-Display parking machines will be installed along Lakeshore Road East, replacing the area's parking meters. A Pay-and-Display machine is a kiosk that replaces, on average, six to eight individual parking meters on a street. The machines, which were approved by council in the 2010 capital budget, allow users to pay for on-street parking using coins or credit cards. It also provides users with a receipt. In May 2012, Pay-and-Display parking machines will replace parking meters on Reynolds Street, from Robinson Street to Lakeshore Road East; Trafalgar Road, from Robinson Street to Lakeshore Road East; Dunn Street, from Robinson Street to Church Street; George Street, from Lakeshore Road East to Church Street; Thomas Street, from Robinson Street to Church Street; and Navy Street, from Lakeshore Road East to Church Street. The ticket must be placed face up, showing the expiration time. By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The Town of Oakville has cancelled plans for a pilot project that would have seen parking meters installed on various streets within Bronte Village. Installation of the meters was to have taken place between next spring and fall. Once in place, the meters would have remained there until the winter of 2013/2014 when a report would have come before council assessing the pilot project and giving council the opportunity to decide to make the paid parking locations permanent. In a report to councillors, the Town's Parking Manager Hania Ellison said Town staff began looking into the possibility of introducing paid parking to the Bronte Village after council asked it to do so last year. Paid parking, Ellison said, is part of the plan for Bronte Village under the new Livable Oakville Official Plan. Ellison reported while only 50 per cent of Bronte Village parking spaces are currently occupied at peak periods, the prime parking areas (those to be metered) are operating at, or near, capacity. Ellison said when people park in commercial areas, it can limit available parking for customers -- and meters would provide incentive for parking turnover. The Bronte BIA, however, is convinced introducing paid parking now will do more harm than good and called for the Town to hold off. "If we are charging people $1.50 an hour for someone to stop and have a coffee they are going to stay away," Ann Sargent, executive director of f the Bronte BIA, told a committee meeting earlier this fall. "We are not unreasonable, we are not saying free parking should be a right, but right now this would be a death knell." Other speakers also stated the Town needs to encourage businesses and pedestrians in Bronte Village -- which paid parking would not do. "When people do come down and park, they want to go fishing, they want to go walking, they want to use the trails, they want to go biking and through those pursuits they will stop, they will buy, they will eat," said Sargent. Ward 2 Town Councillor Pam Damoff voiced concerns that if parking meters were introduced on the streets, people would simply take up the unpaid parking spaces of nearby businesses. Ellison said businesses near locations, like the GO train stations, cope with such illegal parking by calling the Town to report violators who are then ticketed or towed. For now however, the Town will not impose what could be a hardship on Bronte Village businesses, if only temporarily. "So far this year the Bronte BIA net loss of f businesses is nine," said Ward 1 Town Councillor Ralph Robinson. "We are in the throws of getting close to accomplishing a lot of things, but it has taken longer than we thought it would or wished it would. Amica will happen, Bronte Mall will happen, stores will happen ... there are lots of things ready to break out, but it hasn't happened yet." 3 · Thursday, October 27, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com ERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVER NEW: A new Pay-and-Display parking kiosk on Lakeshore Road East downtown. 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