The Editor,
Re: “PM parking issues could soon have a solution,” (The Tri-City News, Feb. 23).
As well as customer parking issues on Port Moody’s streets, there are widespread parking challenges for service vehicles.
I am a volunteer handyman providing minor home repairs for seniors in the Tri-Cities through a social service program.
From time to time, the residents of highrise towers need home maintenance, renovation, and emergency repairs, home housekeeping service, in-home health care assistance, communication device support and courier deliveries.
But forgotten in the design is the provision of adequate and convenient parking space for service vehicles adjacent to main entrances.
I have had several clients in apartments in highrise buildings in central Port Moody, which have no designated parking spaces for service vehicles. I had to park my car a block away at the curb and carry my step ladder and tool caddy.
More recently, I discovered that curb parking within the Klahanie neighbourhood is designated resident only. I had to park some distance away from my client’s townhouse.
I urge the Klahanie’s strata committee to consider designating two two-vehicle bays for service vehicles only between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays on Klahanie Crescent and the city of Port Moody designate two two-vehicle curb spaces on Klahanie Drive.
The property redevelopment approval process must ensure that adequate provision is made for service vehicle parking.
D. B. Wilson
Port Moody
